Jennifer Longo's debut novel SIX FEET OVER IT published August 2014 courtesy of Random House Books. Her second Random House novel, UP TO THIS POINTE, will publish January 2016. UP TO THIS POINTE is the story of a ballerina (Who is also an ancestor of famed Antarctic explorer Robert Falcon Scott) whose dreams of dancing professionally die, sending her to winter Over in Antarctica in search of meaning and a new path in life. A California native, Jennifer holds a BA degree in Acting from San Francisco State University and an MFA degree in Writing For Theatre from Humboldt State University. She is a two-time Irene Ryan Best Actor award recipient and a Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival Best Full Length Script honoree for her play, FROZEN. After years of acting, playwriting, working as a literary assistant at San Francisco's Magic Theatre, then as an elementary school librarian, Jennifer told the occasional story at San Francisco's Porch Light Storytelling Series and decided at last to face her fear of prose and actually write some. A recent San Francisco transplant, Jennifer lives with her husband and daughter on an island near Seattle, Washington.