Jennifer Y. Johnson-Garcia

Jennifer Y. Johnson-Garcia is the best-selling and award-winning author of Growing Up Between Stops on the A-train: A Memoir (Winner! 2020 Kindle Book Awards Reader's Choice • Winner! 2020 New York City Big Book Award • Winner! 2020 National Indie Excellence Awards). Jennifer has been a professional writer for over 25 years with credits in radio, TV, print, and film including writing a hit song in Japan and editing a newspaper in Jersey City. Jennifer holds a B.A. in English from Thomas Edison State University and is completing graduate work at Harvard. She currently resides near New York City.

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