About the Author

Jennifer is a Maryland native and Pennsylvanian at heart, living in the Philadelphia Suburbs. She holds a bachelor’s degree in philosophy with a minor in communications from Barton College and a master’s in liberal arts with a focus on museum studies from the University of Delaware, where she wrote her thesis on the material culture of roadside memorials.

Lane co-hosted a daily automotive blog, served as president of a large car club. She was also the co-owner of a classic Jeep that inspired her to take things apart and put them back together again, sometimes in better condition than they were when she started. Sometimes.

Jennifer is a member of the Authors Guild, the Historical Novel Society, and the Independent Book Publishers Association. Her first book, Of Metal and Earth, won the 2019 Next Generation Indie Book Award for First Novel and was a Finalist in the 2018 IAN Book of the Year Awards in the category of Literary / General Fiction.