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Jennie S. Bev is an award-winning author, columnist, and serial social entrepreneur based in California. She writes in English and Indonesian.

She writes about social and political issues, business and entrepreneurship, psychology, education, human rights, law, multiculturalism, philosophy, and in search of compassion. While feature, opinion, and narrative nonfiction writings are her forte, she has started writing fiction.

Her byline has appeared in The Jakarta Post, The Jakarta Globe, Strategic Review, Asia Sentinel, Common Ground News, Asia News Network, The Korea Times, The Brunei Times, Malaysian Insider, Media Bistro, Women’s International Perspectives, USA Rise Up, Tracy Press, Audrey, NY Parenting and the inserts to New York Daily News, Chicago Tribune, Washington Post, Kansas City Star and St. Louis Post-Dispatch, among others. She also writes regularly for Kontan in Indonesian.

In addition, her profile has been published in Entrepreneur, Canadian Business, T3, Media Bistro, Home Business, Teen People, The Arizona Republic, Tracy Press, The Independent, The Record, The Jakarta Globe and broadcasted by KCRA-TV SF Bay Area, Voice of America, Swiss Public Radio, and Radio Singapore International, among others.

In a way, Bev is a literary opposite of Stockton native Maxine Hong Kingston, who wrote about being trapped between American culture and the wrenchingly different ways her Chinese immigrant parents. Cultural dislocation empowers Bev.
Michael Fitzgerald
The Record columnist

The fire within Jennie was ignited as another fire was extinguished.
Justin Lafferty
Tracy Press reporter

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