About the Author
JENNY BLOCK is a frequent contributor to a number of high-profile publications from Huffington Post to Playboy, and is the author of O Wow: Discovering Your Ultimate Orgasm and Open: Love, Sex, and Life in an Open Marriage (winner of a 2008 Lambda Literary Award). She appears regularly on HuffPo Live, the HuffPo Sex and Love Podcast, and is featured in HuffPo’s first ever, free-standing multimedia project. She holds both her BA and her MA in English from Virginia Commonwealth University and taught college composition for nearly ten years.
Her work appears in and on a wide variety of publications and websites, including TheDailyMeal.com, YahooTravel.com, Jezebel.com, YourTango.com, American Way, Dallas Morning News, the Dallas Voice, edgedallas.com, and Curve Magazine.
She is often called on as an expert on sex and women’s sexuality for Cosmopolitan.com, Romper.com, yourtango.com, bustle.com, Woman’s Day magazine, SheKnows.com, and many others.
Her essay “And Then We Were Poly” is included in Rebecca Walker’s book, One Big Happy Family: 18 Writers Talk About Polyamory, Open Adoption, Mixed Marriage, Househusbandry, Single Motherhood, and Other Realities of Truly Modern Love (Riverhead Hardcover, 2009), which received a starred review from Kirkus. Jenny’s essay “On Being Barbie” is included in the book It’s a Girl: Women Writers on Raising Daughters (Seal Press, 2006).
Jenny has appeared on a variety of television and radio programs, including Nightline, Fox and Friends, The Glenn Beck Show, The Tyra Banks Show, Good Morning Texas, The Morning Show with Mike and Juliet, foxnews.com (online video), Playboy Radio, The Alan Colmes Show, The Young Turks, and BBC Radio.
Jenny’s books have been written about or reviewed in and on a variety of publications and sites, including HuffingtonPost.com, Playboy, YourTango.com, Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, Glamour, Marie Claire, Curve, Observer UK, Maxi (Germany), Psychologies (UK), Playgirl, NPR’s Morning Edition, The New York Times, feministing.com, San Francisco Chronicle, New York Daily News, 2: The Magazine for Couples (Canada), wow-womenonwriting.com, and the Baltimore City Paper.
Jenny has also spoken in bookstores and at events all across the country, including the AVN Convention, Exxxotica Convention, Catalyst Convention, Brain Tease Dallas, the Wyly Theatre, the Texas Theater, Georgetown University, and the Science Museum of Virginia.
author photo by: Steph Grant