Jennifer L. Armentrout

1 universe Last reviewed 2026-08-26

Jennifer Lynn Armentrout is an American author born June 11, 1980, in Martinsburg, West Virginia, who earned a psychology degree before pursuing writing professionally, publishing her first novel in 2011 after numerous rejections. She writes fantasy, romance, and new adult fiction under her own name and the pseudonym J. Lynn, working as a hybrid author who both self-publishes and holds contracts with publishers including Harlequin Teen, Disney/Hyperion, and HarperCollins. She is a number-one New York Times and USA Today bestselling author, best known for the Blood and Ash series, the Obsidian and Titan series, and The Problem with Forever, which won the 2017 RITA Award for Young Adult Romance. She founded the ApollyCon fan convention in 2015 and was diagnosed with the degenerative eye condition retinitis pigmentosa the same year. She lives in Martinsburg, West Virginia, with her husband, dog, and alpacas.

Universe(s)

Books

• A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire (2020) · Blood and Ash Core Canon
• From Blood and Ash (2020) · Blood and Ash Core Canon
• A Shadow in the Ember (2021) · Blood and Ash Core Canon
• The Crown of Gilded Bones (2021) · Blood and Ash Core Canon
• A Light in the Flame (2022) · Blood and Ash Core Canon
• The War of Two Queens (2022) · Blood and Ash Core Canon
• A Fire in the Flesh (2023) · Blood and Ash Core Canon
• A Soul of Ash and Blood (2023) · Blood and Ash Core Canon
• Visions of Flesh and Blood (2023) · Blood and Ash Core Canon
• Born of Blood and Ash (2024) · Blood and Ash Core Canon

Aggregate across all universes

• Total Core Canon books across all universes: 10 books
• Award recognitions across all universes: 0 (None recorded)

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