Jennifer DiMarco's Official Website

Entrepreneur | Author & Gamer | Artist & Carpenter

Musician & Builder | Mother & Partner | Baker & Blender

Born in the autumn of 1973, in Seattle, Washington, Jennifer DiMarco wrote her first novel at the age of ten. Articulate and confident, the young author had published more than a half dozen novels, plays, and collections before she was sixteen, and earned first place and other honors from the Pacific Northwest Writers Conference and Seattle Bumbershoot for both short fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.

Graduating from alternative public school Summit K-12 in 1991, Jennifer spent the next two years touring the United States with "Escape to the Wind," the first book in her dystopian SF cycle, "The Wind Trilogy." A Seattle Times Bestseller for two consecutive weeks, "Escape to the Wind" was reviewed in more than a hundred periodicals. During this time, Jennifer also spoke openly on radio and television, and gave several public speeches at GLBT rallies, about being the daughter of lesbian parents, and a survivor of abduction and rape. Gracious but very certain of herself, Jennifer was frequently referred to as a "firecracker" and the "Italian dynamite," an image that was somewhat softened by her small stature and easy smile.

In 1994, Jennifer opened an independent publishing house which came to be known as Orchard House Press. A traditional press with a focus on timeless books and games across a dozen genres, OHP catered primarily to established authors looking for more control of their work.

Jennifer is known best today as the designer of the patented operating system that runs the Mardi Gras 3000 card game, and as the continuing Chief Executive Officer of the privately held OHP. A mother of two, she shares a home in the forest with author Cris DiMarco and author/illustrator Brianne DiMarco on Washington's gorgeous Olympic Peninsula.

[Top photo by Brianne DiMarco, Jennifer at Ruby Beach on the Washington coast, 2010.]

[Bottom photo by Cris DiMarco, Jennifer and her children at home, 2009.]