Jenny Block writes for
Women's Health, The Dallas Morning News, American Way, ellegirl.com,
BeE, bRILLIANT, People Newspapers, Stone, Where, and
D. She also has work in the books
It's a Girl: Women Writers on Raising Daughters (Seal Press, 2006) and
Letters to my Teacher (Adams, 2005), as well as in the forthcoming book,
Have I Got a Guy For You: Fix-ups and Blind Dates Coordinated By Our Mothers (Viking, forthcoming 2007). In addition, her writing has appeared in
Chow, Pointe, Virginia Living, Style Weekly, Tango, Richmond Magazine, and
Literary Mama. The inspiration for
Open stems from the piece, "Portrait of an Open Marriage", which ran in
Tango, and was reprinted by
Cosmopolitan Germany and
The Huffington Post. Jenny was also interviewed about the story on Chick Chat Radio, and for the daily newspaper
a.m. New York. Jenny holds both her Bachelor's and her Master's in English from Virginia Commonwealth University, where she taught composition for nearly ten years. She has also taught at the University of Richmond and Strayer University, as well as lectured at academic conferences across the country. Jenny has written numerous academic ancillaries for the Newsweek Education Program, Addison Wesley Longman, and Simon and Schuster.