Jennifer Bingham Hull has been a writer and journalist for more than twenty years. After graduating from Denison University and receiving a master’s degree in journalism from the University of Missouri, she worked as a staff writer for both the Wall Street Journal and Time Magazine covering health care, business and other domestic topics. She then moved to Nicaragua to report on the end of the Contra war for the Christian Science Monitor, its TV programs, and other newspapers.

After relocating to Miami in 1992, Hull began writing for magazines, covering international and political issues for publications including the Atlantic Monthly, MS., the Los Angeles Times Magazine, Marie Claire, Harper’s Bazaar, and American Way. Her stories for these magazines took her to the Middle East to report on a prominent Israeli peace activist, to Guatemala to examine the effect of coffee growing on the environment, and to the troubled Mexican state of Chiapas to interview Zapatista rebels.

Hull put off motherhood for many years, fearing it would turn her into a domestic drone. After having her first child six years ago, however, she realized that she’d not only embarked on a new adventure, but found a great subject. Hull’s articles and essays on parenting have appeared in Working Mother, Salon.com, Parenting, Real Simple and Brain, Child. “Baby Bomb,” a commentary on the first baby’s effect on her marriage aired on New York City’s public radio station, WNYC. Recently her essay “Reproductive as a Rabbit, Abstinent as a Nun” appeared in the anthology Life As We Know It: A Collection of Personal Essays from Salon.com.

Hull lives in South Florida with her husband and two daughters. She doesn’t travel to find her stories these days. She doesn’t have to. The rebels now occupy her own house. Her first book, Beyond One, won ForeWord Magazine's Book of the Year Gold Award for 2004.

The Clan: Jessica, Bill, Jennifer and Isabelle