Novelist and rooftop farmer, JL Morin grew up in inner city Detroit and wrote her Japan novel, SAZZAE as her thesis at Harvard. It was a Gold medalist in the eLit Book Award, and a Living Now Book Award winner. She took to the road, traveling around the world, worked as a TV newscaster, and wrote three more novels. Adjunct faculty at Boston University, J. L. Morin, was nominated for the Pushcart Prize in 2011. She is the author of USA Best Book Awards finalist, TRAVELLING LIGHT; and 'Occupy's 1st bestselling novel' TRADING DREAMS, a humorous story that unmasks hypocrisy in the banking industry and tosses corruption onto the horns of the Wall Street bull. Her NATURE'S CONFESSION is a LitPick 5-Star-Reveiw Award winner, was picked as the top read by Marinovich Books, was included in "12 Works of Climate Fiction Everyone Should Read", and an excerpt received an Eco-Fiction Short Story Contest Honorable Mention. JL Morin writes for the Huffington Post, and Library Journal, and has written for The Harvard Advocate, Harvard Yisei, Detroit News, Agence France-Presse, Cyprus Weekly, European Daily, Livonia Observer Eccentric Newspapers, the Harvard Crimson and others.