Jennifer Semple Siegel teaches creative writing and literature at York College of Pennsylvania. Her fiction and non-fiction, including scholarly articles, have been published in various national and regional journals, magazines, and anthologies. From 1993-1996, she edited Onion River Review, a literary journal.

She earned her M.F.A. in fiction from Goddard College (Plainfield, Vermont).

Semple Siegel has lived in Macedonia (a former republic of Yugoslavia) and Belgium.

She currently lives in York, Pennsylvania, with her husband Jerry.