Author Jo Schaffer Layton

Jo Schaffer Layton is a YA novelist, speaker, screenwriter and  a Taekwondo black belt.
She's a founding member of Operation Literacy and co-founder of StoryCon, one of the largest writing conferences in the nation. She and a crew of local and international bestselling authors present writing workshops to thousands of attendees at the Utah-based conference

She is author of the Stanley and Hazel trilogy and Badlands.

Jo loves being involved in anything that promotes literacy and family. She is passionate about community, travel, books, music, healthy eating, classic films and martial arts. Her brain is always spinning new ideas for books and sometimes she even gets around to blogging.

Jo is mom to three strapping sons and two fun bonus kiddos. She lives in Texas with her hunky tattooed husband.