----In her thirty-two years of life, Jennifer has had an extraordinary set of experiences. Growing up in a small surfing village in Florida, at thirteen Jennifer won a national modeling contest with Seventeen magazine that launched her modeling career and began the first phase of her young adult life. In the summer of her fifteenth year, Jen traveled alone to Japan to model, and then, on her sixteenth birthday, moved to Miami Beach to pursue a professional career fulltime. Over the next few years, she traveled the world as a teen model, working in such places as Italy, France and Mexico. She then moved to New York City and was represented by, the world renowned, Wilhelmina Models. Jennifer appeared in top fashion magazines, including Seventeen, YM, Allure, Elle and Vogue Bambini, was featured on several covers, including Sassy, and represented California Tan, Pepe Jeans, Dannon, Baby Ruth and Ford in extensive advertising campaigns.

----At eighteen, Jennifer retired from modeling and returned to Florida to study acting. She immediately was cast as a series regular in The New Mickey Mouse Club: Emerald Cove. After a season of working steadily in Florida, she returned to New York to study under several acclaimed acting coaches, and co-starred in her first movie, Deadline, which debuted at Slamdance Film Festival.

----At twenty, Jennifer moved to Los Angeles, where her acting career continued to flourish. She spent her first year in LA in a contract role on the popular daytime soap opera, General Hospital. She guest starred on such television shows as Buffy The Vampire Slayer, CSI, Boomtown, LA Dragnet, Charmed, Sins of the City, Pacific Blue, SeaQuest: DSV, starred in TV Movies, Colombo likes the Nightlife and Our Son, the Matchmaker, and had reoccurring roles on McG’s Fastlane, CSI: Miami and Xena: Warrior Princess. This last role led to the title role as Cleopatra in the cult classic, sci-fi show Cleopatra 2525. Jennifer also appeared in feature films, including the comedy, Meet Market (which co-starred Julian McMahon), Shallow Hal, internationally successful horror film, My Little Eye and Never Die Alone with DMX. As a popular actress, Jen has been interviewed and photographed for numerous publications: from online sci-fi fan blogs, to TV Guide, to posing for edgy magazines such as Stuff, Loaded, FHM UK (photo’s by James White) and the cover of Maxim.

----After retiring from acting, Jennifer become involved in the fashion business, launching Vanitas of California, a design company with her sister-in-law, Taryn Band, and her sister, Katie Wacha. Vanitas was considered one of the top emerging fashion labels and was often seen on the pages of US Weekly worn by celebrity clients like Cameron Diaz, Christina Aguilera, Lauren Conrad and Nicole Richie.

----In 2004, Jennifer married singer/songwriter, Alex Band, lead singer of the popular rock band, The Calling. Alex’s song, Wherever you will go, was the number one song in the world in 2002 and one of the top twenty biggest songs of all time. The Calling has sold more than 4 million records worldwide. Jennifer is lucky to count many of Alex’s domestic and international fans as her own fans.

----Jennifer was diagnosed with giant hemangiomas of the liver in 2003 and underwent successful liver resection in 2006. Through her illness, Jen and Alex became passionate supporters of Donate Life America, the nonprofit charity branch of the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS). Their involvement has brought in more contributions and interest to Donate Life than any other individual, and they now co-chair the spin off organization, Alex Band’s Donate Life Rocks.

----Since 2001, Jennifer has studied creative writing at the UCLA extension writer’s program, and has recently graduated from UCLA’s “Master Class in Memoir” program, taught by PEN nominee, Samantha Dunn. Additionally, Jennifer is lucky to have post-modern fairytale queen, Francesca Lia Block, as her mentor.

----Jennifer has a strong online presence thru MySpace, Facebook and her website, jenniferskyband.com. The blog-poems that she posts weekly have attracted a wide range of repeat readers. Jen has contributed to “Dime Stories” for NPR, reading from an excerpt of A Model Life. In November, 2008, Jennifer joined Francesca Lia Block at a reading of Block’s latest book, How to [Un]Cage A Girl, and Jennifer read from her manuscript of A Model Life. She is a member of SCBWI, ALA, YALSA, AFTRA and SAG.

----Jennifer sees A Model Life as the first in a series of companion memoirs for the YA audience. Other “behind-the-scenes” personal experiences she plans to write about include acting, dating/marrying a rock star and surviving a serious illness.
She is currently working on the first in a series of young adult magical realism books titled Seaspray. Seaspray is about water, love and immortality.

----Jen lives in Los Angeles, California with her husband Alex Band and their two mutant fairy cats, Parigi and Sixers.
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