About Jennifer
Jennifer Mook-Sang was born in Guyana and moved to Canada at the age of fourteen. Since she can remember, she's loved to read. Summers would find her curled up with humungous stacks of comic books. When she'd read those a trillion times over and knew them by heart, she'd start reading her textbooks for the coming year.
Public speaking wasn't expected of students in Guyana, so when she came to Canada and discovered she had to do a class presentation, Jennifer was very nervous. But she managed to survive giving a speech about her favourite artist and inventor, Leonardo da Vinci. Phew! After high school she went to the Universities of Toronto and Waterloo and earned two degrees in psychology.
Jennifer didn't consider writing until she began reading stories to her own kids. Those books were so much fun and so clever, creating one seemed like the best thing anyone could do. She took writing classes and workshops and read lots about writing. She wrote bad stuff and not-so-bad stuff until she had written a whole book about a boy who really didn't want to give a speech.
In one of Jennifer's writing classes, the instructor invited everyone to read something they had written, out loud. "It's good practice," he said, "for reading from your book when you're rich and famous with thousands of fans." Jennifer thought that was funny. Since then, she's been practicing reading out loud to her thousands of fans. And now public speaking only makes her a little nervous.
Jennifer lives in Burlington, Ontario. When she isn't writing, she likes to read recipe books and cook things like biryani, cassava pone, and guacamole. She can also twist a mean balloon animal.
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