Jenny Ladner-Brenner is a native New Yorker, who has been writing short stories, fiction, and children's books for nearly two decades. She currently teaches history at a small, independent high school on Manhattan's East side and is acquiring a second Master's Degree in Social Work from New York University. Jenny has been work-shopping her first novel, "The Dinner Party", with members of the Advanced Fiction Group of The New York Writers Workshop, and hopes to have it completed in the fall of 2010.