Jenn Stroud Rossmann is a fiction writer and an engineer. Her debut novel, The Place You’re Supposed to Laugh, was published in 2018 by 7.13 Books. She writes the essay series An Engineer Reads a Novel at Public Books. Her short stories have appeared in such journals as Eckleburg, Bull, Pithead Chapel, Hobart, X-ray Lit, Cheap POP, JMWW Journal, Literary Orphans, Jellyfish Review, and failbetter, and have garnered several Pushcart nominations. Her nonfiction has appeared in The Atlantic, and she is the co-author of two textbooks on continuum mechanics for engineers; her Worldbuilding: The Engineering Imagination is forthcoming in summer 2026 from Polity Press. She has attended the Tin House Writers Workshop, Squaw Valley Community of Writers, One Story Summer Workshop, and the Djerassi Resident Artists Program. Her work has been a finalist for Glimmer Train, BOA Editions, and Sarabande Books Prizes. Rossmann earned her BS and PhD at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the Dean of Engineering and a professor of mechanical engineering at Lafayette College.
Regal House Publishing is proud to bring you Jenn’s novel What Was Promised in 2028.
