Jenny Hall grew up in St. Paul, Minnesota, and started skating at the advanced age of eleven. By eleven and a half, she knew she’d never make it to the Olympics. Not even close. But she did pass her USFSA Senior Freestyle and ISIA Freestyle 9 tests and was a charter member of the Roseville F.S.C. in Minnesota.Jenny joined Holiday On Ice in Europe in 1983 after two years of college and impending boredom at St. Olaf in Northfield, Minnesota. She survived one season with Holiday On Ice…barely. She flew home with a fever of 103 and didn’t leave the couch for two straight weeks. She thought she was done with ice shows.
But three years later, after finishing her B.A. at the University of Minnesota, Jenny was on a plane for rehearsals instead of standing in line to receive her diploma. The ice show was for six months in Atami, Japan and she loved it so much she skated every summer in Japan for the next five years.
Jenny started writing after daughter was born and taking dependable three-hour naps every day. Five years later, the first Ice Charades was published. Eight years after that, she released a sequel based on her experiences skating in Japan. Her goal for both books was to tell a story from the chorus point of view and to make them funny. If you read them, hopefully you will agree.
