Jennifer Trafton is a children’s book author, visual artist, creative writing teacher, editor, and speaker on imagination and the arts. Her first novel, The Rise and Fall of Mount Majestic, received starred reviews in Publishers Weekly and School Library Journal and was a nominee for Tennessee's Volunteer State Book Award and the National Homeschool Book Award. Her second novel, Henry and the Chalk Dragon, arose from her lifelong love of drawing and her personal quest for the courage to be an artist. The book received starred reviews in Booklist and School Library Journal,  was nominated for a Cybils Award, and was named a runner-up for WORLD Magazine's Children's Book of the Year. 

Jennifer holds degrees from Wake Forest University and Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary with further graduate work in religion, history, and literature at Duke University. She has served as the managing editor of Christian History magazine (then part of Christianity Today International), a curriculum writer and editor for the StoneWorks Global Arts Initiative, and an independent creative writing teacher, and is a regular speaker, editor, website developer, illustrator, and reading group host for the Rabbit Room. She’s currently illustrating an upcoming book for Rabbit Room Press.

Jennifer and her husband, author and playwright A. S. (Pete) Peterson, live in Nashville, Tennessee.

Podcast Interviews & Recordings