Hello and welcome! My name is Jasmine and I’m a writer. There, I said it.

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I’ve wanted to do that since I was a little girl, penning wildly macabre poems and ghost stories in my club house. Poetry comes naturally to me, so, of course, I’ve spent the past 20 years trying to write a novel. I detoured along the way to be a copywriter, head of marketing, and entrepreneur.

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The current WIP waking me up early in the morning is a post-Plague story of second chances set outside York in 1389. (It’s the year you’ve always wanted to learn about!) I’ve studied the middle ages since reading Gertrude Hartman’s Medieval Days and Ways in fourth grade and getting to sew my own May Day dress out of a 1980s two-toned satin bedsheet. I’m especially interested in historical conceptions of health and medicine, which is one of my favorite things to get lost in researching. Check out some of the books inspiring me right now here. (Also, shout out to the Chicago Public Library, which makes my research habit affordable.) I estimate a year until this manuscript is ready to query. 
 

I have two additional novel-length works in progress (one set in modern times and one set in a future in the throes of the climate cataclysm) and a list of historical concepts so long that I’ll never have time to fully research and write them all.
 

I went to Yale for undergrad (Linguistics) and Columbia for business school (Marketing). I stay sane with yoga, wandering my Chicago neighborhood, and spending time with my two boys and extremely yappy dog. I believe vegetables and sleep will solve most problems. Oh, and books.