Jeff Zentner

About the Author

Jeff Zentner is the author of Colton Gentry’s Third Act, The Serpent King, which Kirkus Reviews named one of the best books of the 21st Century, as well as In the Wild Light, and more. Among other honors, he has won the ALA’s William C. Morris Award, the Amelia Elizabeth Walden Award twice, the Muriel Becker Award, the International Literacy Association Award, been longlisted twice for the Carnegie Medal, and is a two-time Southern Book Prize finalist and a Tennessee Book Award finalist. Before becoming a writer, he was a musician who recorded with Iggy Pop, Nick Cave, and Debbie Harry. He lives in Nashville.