Jennifer Goodrich grew up in Story, Wyoming, a town of four hundred people hidden in the foothills of the Bighorn Mountains. The daughter of environmentalists, she skied, hiked, and backpacked her way through childhood.

After graduating from Colorado College, Jennifer earned an MA from NYU in Literature and Creative Writing. Since then, her short stories have appeared in The Los Angeles Review and Chelsea. She also works as U.S. Assistant Editor for The Dark Horse: The Transatlantic Poetry Journal, where she occasionally contributes essays.

Over the years, Jennifer has returned to the West many times, traveling to mountain, coastal and desert regions in California, Arizona and New Mexico. Her novel Broken Moon was inspired by these journeys, and a desire to explore these worlds through the quests and adventures of her young women protagonists. Jennifer lives in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, with her husband and son.