Born in Houston but raised in Los Angeles before moving to Atlanta at the age of seventeen, Jessica Alexander is a city girl with deep Southern roots.
Jessica’s first picture book, Look Both Ways, was published by Bloomsbury USA in 2005. It is the recipient of a Kansas State Reading Award. Aimed at preschoolers and written in rhyme, it has been translated into French and German.
Her second book, This Is The Dream, was released by HarperCollins in 2006 and received a Once Upon a World Children’s Book Award Honor in addition to being featured in Child magazine’s list of “Books to Inspire Young Readers.” It is also on Georgia Center for the Book’s list of “25 Books All Young Georgians Should Read,” and received a starred review from Booklist, who called it “an excellent resource for discussing the changes of the civil rights era.”
Her newest book, This Is The Game, which is a rhyming look at the evolution of baseball in America, was released in Spring 2011.
Jessica remains very active in community theater, and has recently directed local productions of Nate the Great, Aladdin, Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing, and A Christmas Story. She is also a founding member of StageWrite Playwrights’ Group, where she is hard at work on her first full-length musical, Don’t Shoot the Messenger. Her previous play, The Recipe Box, was featured by Jewish Theater of the South as part of their Theatrical Buffet series.
In addition to raising her four children, Jessica currently works as an editor with a children’s book publisher in Atlanta. She is also busy revising her first middle grade novel, which at this point is shaping up to be a paranormal adventure with a shot of steampunk.
