Jen Lancaster

Jen Lancaster is an American author whose titles have appeared on The New York Times Best Seller list. She is best known for the Jen Lancaster Memoirs series, which begins with Bitter Is the New Black, her account of losing a corporate job after 9/11 and turning the fallout into a funny, self-deprecating story, and continues with Bright Lights, Big Ass. She also wrote Such a Pretty Fat, a collection of personal essays and memoir. Raised in Indiana and a Purdue alumna, she now lives in Chicago.