Jennifer A. Boyd
writing as Jennifer Boyd
.Jennifer Boyd is an award-winning author and preservationist, writing memoir, architectural histories, and darkly satirical psychological fiction inspired by real places and true events. A New Jersey native, she lives in Austin, Texas.
The Gingerbread Asylum
As the nation's state asylums close for good in the 1990s, released patients wash ashore in Ocean Haven, a faded, Victorian seaside resort. Nimby outrage, small-time corruption, and unintended consequences of a mental health revolution fuel this character-driven suspense in the heart of Americana.Coming in the Fall, 2026
A Home Renovators Guide for Historic Ocean Grove
Winner of the Preservation NJ Constance Greif Writing Award:
a historic preservation memoir,
a Victorian architectural style guide, and a window into 19th-century resort history.
By the 1980s, Ocean Grove’s National Historic District hung in the balance: a toll of fires, storms, demolitions, and political indifference was hastening the loss of irreplaceable architectural fabric. Through this colorful account of her family's old-house renovations and the residents' grassroots crusade to protect a beloved 19th-century seaside resort, A Home Renovator's Guide revisits the 1980s, with over 114 color photographs, antique and contemporary.
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