Jenny Fran Davis is 22 years old and a recent graduate Wesleyan University. She is the recipient of the 2013 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards' National Gold Medal for novels. In 2015, she was awarded a full scholarship to the Wesleyan Writers' Conference based on an excerpt from Everything Must Go. Flora's Quare education is rooted in part on Jenny's experience spending a semester at alternative farm school, focused on peace studies, social justice, and environmentalism in northern California. Jenny wrote Everything Must Go as a 20-year-old undergraduate; it is her first novel.jennyfrandavis.com