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Jenn Chapman grew up with a mother who was abusive physically and emotionally, and later in life was diagnosed as a psychopath. Jenn drew on experiences with a husband who had a serious personality/character disorder to create the serial killer character in this thriller. Jenn is a retired educator who spent several years during her teaching career working with indigenous populations in Washington State and North Dakota. Reservation life gave her a look into a different way of viewing the world through a spiritual lens. That led to creating the characters in this book; a way to share her love for the people who adopted her and taught her their ways. Jenn loved the inclusion of the tribal elders in the preschool educational program and decided to create intergenerational programs in the wider society using that model. They were showcased on newscasts and Good Morning America. She wrote Quality Care: An Intergenerational Approach. With an architect, she started a design company, Bridgings, Inc, where they designed and oversaw the building of several intergenerational programs, ultimately receiving an award from Generations United. She currently lives in Georgetown, Kentucky, where she is writing a second novel, Reservation Stories, and working on a modern historical novel about her years living in Guatemala during their civil war, and the genocide she witnessed. For over fifty years she has been a member of the Baha'i Faith, which teaches equality, and promotes human rights, social justice, and oneness of humanity.
""Jennifer Chapman's Dying for a Second Chance is a novel take on near-death experiences (with glimpses of the hereafter) and their often transformative impacts on survivors' lives thereafter. This tight and taut detective story, embedded in an Indigenous setting, invites the reader to reflect on the 'spirit world' (the world beyond) that co-exists within the terrestrial world, where the ""hereafter"" and the 'here-and-now' intersect.""--Christopher Buck, Author of God & Apple Pie: Religious Myths and Visions of America
