The Naturals

Jennifer Lynn Barnes is an American author of YA novels. She was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and graduated high school in 2002. She went on to receive a degree in cognitive science from Yale University in 2006, and was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to do post-graduate work at Cambridge University. In 2012, she graduated from Yale University with a PhD in Developmental Psychology, and currently serves as an assistant professor of Psychology at the University of Oklahoma at Norman.

Barnes wrote her first book, Golden, when she was nineteen years old. She has written numerous novels since then, including: The Fixer, The Naturals series, Nobody, Every Other Day, and the Raised by Wolves series.

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