JENNY BLOCK

Jenny Block is a Lambda Literary award-winning author, writer, and speaker. She is and has been a frequent contributor to a number of high-profile publications from New York Times to Huffington Post, and is the author of Be That Unicorn. Find Your Magic. Live Your Truth. Share Your Shine; The Ultimate Guide to Solo Sex; O Wow: Discovering Your Ultimate Orgasm; and Open: Love, Sex, and Life in an Open Marriage (winner of a 2008 Lambda Literary Award).

Her latest book, “Be That Unicorn. Find your Magic. Live your Truth. Share your Shine,” was featured in and on a variety of websites, publications, podcasts, and TV shows.

Jenny’s work has appeared in and on a wide variety of publications and websites, including The New York Times, MSNBC, Huffington Post, FoxNews.com, Swaay.com, OutSmart Magazine, Yahoo Travel, Playboy.com, TheDailyMeal.com, YahooTravel.com,  Jezebel.com, YourTango.com, American Way, Dallas Morning News, the Dallas Voice, edgedallas.com, and Curve Magazine.

She has appeared 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.

Jenny has been called on as an expert on women’s issues, travel, and lifestyle topics for Brides Magazine, Cosmopolitan.com, Romper.com, yourtango.com, bustle.com, Woman’s Day magazine, SheKnows.com, and many others.

She’s appeared on a variety of television and radio programs, including Great Day Houston, AM Northwest, 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 Fern Fest, Catalyst Convention, Brain Tease Dallas, the Wyly Theatre, the Texas Theater, Georgetown University, and the Science Museum of Virginia. She has also performed on Holland American Cruises and at Club Med.