My Redroom URL

• http://www.redroom.com/member/jenniferkate

About Me

• Jennifer Gibbons lives in Lafayette, California.  She is the grand prize winner of the Red Room Housewarming contest and one of the winners of the Summer Reading Experience Contest. She is working on a young adult novel and a book of essays.

Relationship Status

• Well hey, I am all for marriage, but I'm not married yet.

Family

• parents, niece, nephew, cat

Interests & Hobbies

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Favorite Books

• To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Betty Smith

Favorite Authors

• Dorothy Allison,Laurie Halse Anderson,Lynda Barry,Elizabeth Berg, Judy Blume,Erma Bombeck,Susan Browne,Frances Hodgson Burnett,Meg Cabot,Beverly Cleary, Diablo Cody, Justin Cronin,Jennifer Crusie, Paula Danziger,Sarah Dessen,Connie May Fowler,Kaye Gibbons (no relation!),Ariel Gore, Cynthia D. Grant, Alice Hoffman, Jessica Barksdale Inclan,John Irving,Marian Keyes, Haven Kimmel, Barbara Kingsolver,Claire Labine, Wally Lamb, Anne Lamott,Lorna Landvik,Adair Lara,Maud Hart Lovelace,Jo-Ann Mapson,Douglas Marland, Armistead Maupin, Linda McCarriston,Larry McMurtry,Christopher Moore,Phyllis Reynolds Naylor,Sharon Olds,Leonard Pitts,Amy Sherman-Palladino,Jodi Picoult,Cornelia Read,David Sedaris,Linda Bloodworth-Thomason,Wendelin Van Draanen,Jennifer Weiner,Michael Lee West, Bailey White, Phyllis Whitney,Jacqueline Winspear

What I'm Reading

• Lies My Mother Never Told Me, Kaylie Jones

EDUCATION

INFLUENCES

• The Ramona books, Beverly Cleary Nancy Drew books by Carolyn Keene (mostly written by Harriet Stratemeyer and Mildred Wirt Benson) Harriet the Spy, Louise Fitzhugh Joni Mitchell

CAUSES I SUPPORT

• American Libraries Hurricane Katrina Relief Fund, Gilda's Club, Greenpeace, Rosie's Broadway Kids,Westwind Foster Family Agency

UNIVERSITY AFFILIATION

• Mills College