Jessica O’Dwyer is the adoptive mother to two children born in Guatemala. Her essays have been published in the San Francisco Chronicle Magazine, Adoptive Families, West Marin Review, and the Marin Independent Journal; aired on radio; and won awards from the National League of American Pen Women. She has worked in public relations and marketing at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego. She has also taught jazz dance and high school English.

Jessica has participated in the Squaw Valley Writers’ Workshop; attended classes at Book Passage in Corte Madera, California; and taken seminars in San Marcos, Guatemala with Joyce Maynard. She is a member of the Left Coast Writers and Writing Mamas, sponsored by Book Passage.

A graduate of the University of Delaware, Jessica grew up at the Jersey shore, the daughter of a high-school industrial arts teacher and former Radio City Music Hall Rockette. Mamalita: An Adoption Memoir is her first book.

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