The Ohio Connection

Jenny Crusie was born Jennifer Smith in 1949, in Wapakoneta, Ohio.
She graduated from Wapakoneta High School.
Jenny completed her bachelor’s degree in Art Education at Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio in 1973.
She taught pre-school in Dayton, Ohio, until her daughter Mollie was born.
Crusie also taught in Beavercreek, Ohio public schools: as an elementary and junior high school art teacher, and a high school English teacher.
Jenny completed a Master’s Degree in Professional Writing and Women's Literature at Wright State University.
She completed an MFA in Fiction (and began a PhD.) at The Ohio State University in Columbus.
Crusie was an undergraduate and graduate instructor at Antioch University, Wright State University and Ohio State University.
She sets many of her best-selling romance novels in Ohio:

Tell Me Lies takes place in the small town of Frog Point, Ohio, where wife and mother Maddie is in a troubled marriage with Brent, who is running for mayor.
Crazy for You is set in Tibet, Ohio.
In Welcome to Temptation, Sophie Dempsey, who runs a wedding video business in Cincinnati, travels to Temptation, Ohio, to help an old friend Clea, a former porn star and aspiring actress.

Jenny Crusie continues to live on the banks of an Ohio river.