Jennifer Zajac aka JZ
Charlotte, N.C.
I've been writing stories since I was 6 years old. I got paid to do that as a journalist for about 20 years and wrote a syndicated, award-winning humor column for Central Virginia newspapers. Now I work for a Fortune 250 company in Charlotte, where I write executive speeches and communications.
My husband and I met while performing in ComedySportz, a Washington, D.C. improv group that almost didn't take me because they shunned stand-up comics, even one who won The coveted Doritos-Sticklets Comedy Competition at The George Washington University.
We have two kids, two labs and one loud house.
My latest projects:
- Trixie and the Mixed-Up Wish, a children's picture book about a shooting star with a speeding problem.
- Liam the Leprechaun, a picture book that explains why the classroom's a mess every St. Patrick's Day.
- Wheaties McFinn, a middle grade novel that's on its third revision. More to come on that.