Jody Gehrman has authored several novels and numerous plays for stage and screen. Her young-adult novel, Babe in Boyland, won the International Reading Association's Teen Choice Award and was optioned by the Disney Channel. Jody's plays have been produced or had staged readings in Ashland, New York, San Francisco, Chicago and L.A. Her full-length, Tribal Life in America, won the Ebell Playwrights Prize and received a staged reading at the historic Ebell Theater in Los Angeles. She and her partner David Wolf won the New Generation Playwrights Award for their one-act, Jake Savage, Jungle P.I. She holds a Masters Degree in Professional Writing from the University of Southern California and is a professor of Communications at Mendocino College in Northern California.
Praise for The Summer We Buried: Gripping . . . Gehrman keeps the suspense high . . . Psychological thriller fans will find much to like. -Publishers Weekly Praise for The Girls Weekend: A brooding meditation on how friendships buckle when we resent other people's success. -The Washington Post [An] exhilarating, atmospheric thriller exploring the darker side of friendship. With dazzling prose and an eerily beautiful setting, The Girls Weekend delivers some ugly but necessary truths. -Megan Collins, author of The Winter Sister From its irresistible first sentence to the final page, The Girls Weekend is a captivating who-done-it and a tour de force thriller . . . Simply unputdownable. -Paula Treick DeBoard, critically acclaimed author of Here We Lie and The Drowning Girls Clear your schedule, because once you pick The Girls' Weekend up, you won't be able to set it down. -Liz Fenton & Lisa Steinke, bestselling authors of The Two Lila Bennetts A heart-pounding thriller that will have you guessing until the very end! Not to be missed. -Elle Marr, author of The Missing Sister Gehrman does a good job delineating the women's individual characters. -Publishers Weekly A Celtic knot of suspense and surprise. -Red Carpet Crash A Mean Girls reunion. -New York Journal of Books I highly recommend this. -Seattle Book Review