Jennifer Lauck (born December 15, 1963) is an American fiction and non-fiction author, essayist, speaker and writing instructor.

[citation needed] Her reports and investigative journalism appeared on CNN and the ABC Nightly News.

[10] Blackbird detailed Lauck's memories of her difficult childhood[1] and was followed in October 2001 by her next book, Still Waters, that documented her life until her 30s and the birth of her first child.

[11][12] In Still Waters, Lauck attempts to understand the suicide death of her adoptive brother whom she was separated from as a young girl.

[13] In 2005, she published a collection of short stories titled Show Me the Way in which she took a closer look at her parenting of her two children.