Jen Sincero is a writer, musician, and performer from New York who currently lives in Venice, CA. After working in the record industry for nearly a decade, Jen jumped ship to focus on her own music and the writing of her first book, the semi-autobiographical novel, Don’t Sleep With Your Drummer (MTV/Pocket Books, August 2002).  The book’s gotten rave reviews and was optioned by both HBO and Oxygen. Her second book, The Straight Girl’s Guide To Sleeping With Chicks (Simon & Schuster) came out in 2005 and is a national bestseller.

Over the years Jen has fronted a slew of rock bands, most notably the New York punk trio Crotch.  Wearing nothing but a hair bikini and a guitar, Jen led Crotch to a demo deal with Columbia Records and landed their music video, “Power Tool of Love,” on Comedy Central.  Interview Magazine hailed the band as “angry, funny, loud, and loaded,” Bust labeled them “a band that isn’t afraid to wear the pants or drop em,” and punk lord Henry Rollins gushed, “Wow, the lyrics suck.”  In 1996, she fled New York for her beloved New Mexico where she did nothing but backpack and play music with her bands, 60 Foot Queenie and The Jenny Clinkscales Band. Although they were some of the most productive and happy years of her life, not a lot happens in New Mexico (which is why she moved there in the first place) so she moved to L.A.

At the moment, Jen is teaching people how to write and sell their nonfiction books, helping women entrepreneurs get their businesses off the ground with SmartyLA, teaching sex workshops, playing music and writing a bunch of new stuff including a sex column for LAist.com and The Huffington Post. Jen is also really sick of writing in the third person.

My latest quest is to travel the world and inform people that if they believe in themselves and get off their asses to do the things they love, they will be victorious. I will dedicate my life to spreading this knowledge, as well as stand on my soap box about the sorry state of sexual enlightenment in this country. My book, the one about straight chicks, is a smut fest and kind of funny, but it's also about feeling empowered as a chick and as sexual beings in general. And that's what I'm really interested in talking about, so I don't mind if I do.