Jessica Anya Blau

Jessica Anya Blau‘s second novel, Drinking Closer to Home (Harper) was released in Jan. 2011. Her first novel, The Summer of Naked Swim Parties, was picked as a Best Summer Book by the Today Show, the New York Post, and New York Magazine. Jessica grew up in Southern California where both her novels are set, and currently lives in Baltimore. She teaches at Goucher College.See her website here.