Jessica Rowley Pell Bird Blakemore (born April 19, 1969) is an American novelist.
[4] She then received a Juris Doctor degree from Albany Law School[2] and worked in healthcare administration for several years,[4] including as the Chief of Staff at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts.
[4][5] Several years later, Bird invented a world populated by vampires and began writing single-title paranormal romance novels under the pen name J.R. Ward.
[5] Bird likes to write series novels which incorporate characters from her previous books.
[4] Her heroes are most often alpha males, "the tougher, the cockier, the more arrogant, the better", while the heroines are smart and strong.