Jennifer Gooch Hummer is the award-winning and best-selling author of Veridian Sterling Fakes it, Girl Unmoored, and Operation Tenley. Jennifer has worked as a script analyst for various talent agencies and major film studios in Los Angeles. She resides in Los Angeles with her husband and their three daughters.

Girl Unmoored has been recognized with several awards including the Maine Literary Awards for YA Fiction in 2013, Moonbeam Children's Book Awards 2012 for YA Fiction Adult Themes, and the Reader Views Kids Award Winner for Best Teen/YA Book of the Year in 2012. It was also a Reader Views Winner for Best Teen/YA Fiction 2012, a Foreword Book of The Year Finalist for YA Fiction 2012, a winner in the Indie Excellence Awards 2012 for Cross-Genre Fiction, a winner in the Next Generation Indie Book Awards 2012 for YA Fiction, and a finalist in the USA Book Awards.