Jenny Peters

Jenny Peters has covered the entertainment, lifestyle and travel worlds as a freelance journalist for many years. Her credits include writing on film, celebrities, events and parties, travel, restaurants, wine and spirits, design and architecture, beauty, spas, golf, automobiles and fashion for USA Today, National Geographic Traveler, New York Lifestyles Magazine, AARP.com, Variety, New York Magazine, Bask Magazine, the Los Angeles Daily News and many other domestic and international publications, websites and wire services. She was the editor in chief of Brentwood/Distinctive Living magazines (the Southern California luxury lifestyle magazines), and held the same post for Scene magazine. Before she became a full-time freelance writer, Peters was a manuscript editor at Random House Trade Publishing, working with authors ranging from Woody Allen to Carl Sagan. She is a founding and voting member of the Broadcast Film Critics Association, who present the Critics’ Choice Awards every January honoring the previous year’s finest in cinematic achievement. Her favorite places to be are on the beach playing volleyball, scuba diving in warm tropical waters, sipping wine in the middle of a vineyard or simply strolling the streets and soaking in the atmosphere of one of the world's great cities. She splits her time between Los Angeles and New Orleans, two of the world's greatest cities.