Jenn Stroud Rossmann is a fiction writer and an engineer. Her first novel, The Place You're Supposed to Laugh, was published in 2018 by 7.13 Books. She writes the essay series An Engineer Reads a Novel at Public Books. Her short stories have appeared in such journals as Pithead Chapel, Hobart, X-ray Lit, Cheap POP, JMWW Journal, Literary Orphans, Jellyfish Review, and failbetter, and have garnered multiple Pushcart nominations. Her nonfiction has appeared in The Atlantic, and she is the co-author of two textbooks on continuum mechanics for engineers.

She has attended the Tin House Writers Workshop, Squaw Valley Community of Writers, One Story Summer Workshop, and the Djerassi Resident Artists Program. Her work has been a finalist for Glimmer Train, BOA Editions, and Sarabande Books Prizes.

Rossmann earned her BS and PhD at the University of California, Berkeley. She is a professor of mechanical engineering at Lafayette College, and previously taught at Harvey Mudd College. She throws right, bats left.