She's a writer, producer, editor and performer. Her writing spans the genres from cat mysteries to fairytales, classic ghost stories to gory horror, hard boiled noir yarns to humor that will tickle your funny bone.

Tina Jens is a two-time Bram Stoker Award nominee (given by the Horror Writers Association) for short fiction in 1999 and producing the Twilight Tales reading series in 2001. She has produced Twilight Tales, the live weekly reading series, for eight years. And she serves as the editor of the Twilight Tales line of anthologies. With fourteen books out so far, they've garnered two additional Bram Stoker nominations for short and long fiction.

Her work has appeared in more than forty publications, including: Outre, Filmfax and Milwaukee magazines, the comic book "Scandals," the non-fiction text Writing Horror, the RPG book Fragile Path, and the Ottumwa Courier, Ft. Madison Democrat, West Point Bee, Donnellson Star, Burlington Hawkeye and Keokuk Daily Gate newspapers, as well as numerous anthologies (see a list of her publications here).

Tina is a blues fanatic, frequenting many of the legendary Chicago clubs, including the Kingston Mines, The Checkerboard, Rosa's, Buddy Guy's Legends, Blue Chicago, Famous Dave's and Blues, Etc, and Wise Fools Pub (these last three are sadly deceased) . But her favorite haunt is a neighborhood club called B.L.U.E.S., which is suspiciously similar to the Lonesome Blues Pub which she writes so often about. She can be found loitering near the back of the bar there, several nights a week.

Tina was born in Iowa City, Iowa, and raised along the banks of the Mississippi River in Ft. Madison, IA. She has a degree in Mass Communication from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She moved to Chicago in 1989, where she lives with her husband of 15 years, Barry; her guinea pigs; and her Japanese fighting fish, Not Dead Yet. Their condo is filled with gargoyles, teddy bears and herb plants, in approximately equal numbers. Say hello to author Tina Jens.

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