Jody Gehrman is thrilled to join the faculty once again at the Mendocino Coast Writers Conference, this time as a Young Adult panelist and manuscript consultant. She is the author of six novels and numerous plays. Babe in Boyland is her most recent Young Adult novel, published in 2011 by Penguin's Dial books. Her other novels include Confessions of a Triple Shot Betty, Triple Shot Bettys in Love, Notes from the Backseat, Tart, and Summer in the Land of Skin. Her plays have been produced in Ashland, New York, San Francisco and L.A. She and her husband David Wolf won the New Generation Playwrights Award for their one-act, Jake Savage, Jungle P.I. She is a professor of English at Mendocino College.

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