About Jennifer Grant

 Jennifer Grant is an award-winning author, editor, and speaker celebrated for her writing at the intersection of nature, spirituality, and everyday awe.

Her picture book Maybe God Is Like That Too won a gold medal from the Moonbeam Spirit Awards and was a book of the year finalist in the Foreword Indies awards. Her second picture book, Maybe I Can Love My Neighbor Too, was named a Junior Library Guild gold standard selection. Her other books for children include the award-winning Finding Calm in Nature and What If I Can't Explain God?

Grant has written for publications including Woman’s Day and Chicago Parent, and for more than a decade wrote features and columns for Sun-Times Media newspapers and the Chicago Tribune.

She divides her time between creative work, speaking, and editorial consulting, offering developmental editing and proposal assistance. She’s a frequent speaker at writers’ conferences, including Calvin University’s Festival of Faith and Writing, Writing for Your Life, and the West Coast Christian Writers Conference, and she enjoys school visits focused on writing and the benefits of spending time in nature.

Grant holds a master’s degree in English literature from Southern Methodist University and is a member of SCBWI, the Authors Guild, and Sigma Tau Delta. She has served on the boards of Open Books and The Secret City, nonprofits she loves.

A lifelong Episcopalian and dual citizen of the U.S. and Canada, she is the mother of four and lives in Chicago with her husband and rescue dog, Scarlett.