Introduction to a Story Addict

So. The name’s Jenna.

I write young adult speculative fiction, obsess over all things superhero (the X-Men will always be the best, even if they wound up with the cinematic short stick), and lament the deaths of my favorite characters. My entire material bucket list consists of a 1967 Chevy Impala, and if a word exists, there’s a 97% chance I’ve mispronounced it at least twice.

I’m a Professional Writing major and a Film & Media Studies minor—which is fitting, I guess, since for as long as I can remember, stories have been the fiery star my life revolves around.

My favorite television show—and the best story I’ve ever found, period; the story arc for seasons one through five is genuinely a thing of glory—is Supernatural. The story of two codependent brothers travelling around the continental United States “hunting things, saving people,” it’s grown from a tiny, low-budget show that almost got cancelled several times, into the longest-running science fiction TV series in the U.S. (Season 12 starts airing later this fall.) In case it isn’t obvious, I could discuss Supernatural until pretty much the end of time. Since life is a tragedy and I don’t have access to a T.A.R.D.I.S., though, I’ll move on to add that some of my other favorite shows include Veronica Mars, Doctor Who, Sherlock, The X-Files, Twin Peaks, and the DCAU.

As far as books go, Maggie Stiefvater’s Raven Cycle will pretty much always own my soul; it mixes Welsh mythology with the most compelling character work I’ve ever been lucky enough to come across, and is one of those series that gets better each time you read it. Holly Black’s Curse Workers trilogy is my other all-time favorite—it’s the noir-influenced story of Cassel Sharpe, a teenage conman who’s just trying to defy his own nature and go straight, but who keeps getting dragged back into the life by his mob-connected family. Pretty great stuff.

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