Jo Schaffer was born and raised in the California Bay Area in a big, creative family. She is a YA novelist, speaker, and taekwondo black belt.
She's a founding member of Teen Author Boot Camp, one of the nation’s largest conferences for teens where bestselling authors present writing workshops to nearly a thousand attendees.
Jo has worked in film and is a writer for BYUtv. She loves being involved in anything creative, and that promotes literacy. She is passionate about community, travel, books, music, healthy eating, classic film and martial arts. But her favorite thing is being mom to three strapping sons and a neurotic cat named Hero. They live together in the beautiful mountains of Utah.