About the Author: 

Jennifer Anne Moses is a writer and painter who lives in Montclair, New Jersey.  She is the author of, Visiting Hours, Bagels and Grits: A Jew on the Bayou, and Food and Whine:  Confessions of a New Millennium Mom.  Her articles, essays, travel writing, Op-Eds, and short stories have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Commentary, Bon Appetit, Town and Country, Salon, Poets and Writers, The Jerusalem Report, Moment, Good Housekeeping, Ladies Home Journal, Parenting, The Pushcart Prizes, The Gettysburg Review, The Antioch Review, Story, The Ontario Review, New Stories from the South, and many other publications. Her paintings have been shown at Nicholls State University, Louisiana State University, the Acadiana Center for the Arts, the Jewish Heritage Foundation of North Carolina, the Inside Out Gallery at the Interact Center of Minneapolis, Sixth and I Historic Synagogue in Washington, D.C., the Attic Gallery in Vicksburg, Mississippi, the Masur Museum of Art in Monroe, Louisiana, Knox Gallery in NYC, and The George Segal Gallery, 73 See Gallery and Gallery U in Montclair, NJ. She and her husband have three children, a rescue dog named Marion and an additional beast named Amir.  All seven of them lived in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, for many years.