About Jenny

Jenny Leavitt Short Bio

Jenny Leavitt, an award-winning author, shares her family’s story of survival and growth after the tragic loss of their seventeen-year-old son to a drunk driver in her book GodPrints: Finding Evidence of God in the Shattered Pieces of Life. As a pastor’s wife, she has witnessed God’s faithfulness through shattering loss in her own life and in the lives of countless hurting and broken people. While her son Jacob is already home in heaven, her oldest son and his wife, Caleb and Crystal, make her proud with their love for Jesus and others. Jenny and Myron, her best friend and husband of thirty years, make their home in central Florida with a dog who thinks she’s a cat.

Jenny Leavitt Long Bio

Jenny grew up in northeast Florida, and met her high school sweetheart, Myron, through a church event in 1992. They were married not long after and began their family at a young age. After their second son was born, Jenny was diagnosed with Stage Four Non-Hodgkins lymphoma and endured chemotherapy and radiation treatments. She has been clear since November 1998.

Jenny and Myron faced many challenges during their thirty-year marriage, including a severe back injury that led to financial struggles and homelessness. Through it all, they found a faithful God walking with them.

Those reference points became crucial when the shattering, life-altering news came in: a drunk driver hit their sons and Jacob died at the scene. Caleb barely survived the night, but over time fought his way back to health and is now married to Crystal, an amazing young woman who loves Jesus.

As a pastor’s wife, she has witnessed God’s faithfulness through shattering loss in her own life and in the lives of countless hurting and broken people. Jenny is committed to spreading hope and healing through her writings, speaking, and online presence.

While her son Jacob is already home in heaven, her oldest son and his wife, Caleb and Crystal, make her proud with their love for Jesus and others.

Jenny loves a hot cup of peppermint tea in her sunflower-decked kitchen while reading a new historical fiction novel. She’s also traveled the world with Myron, her best friend and husband of thirty years. So far, they have only visited three continents, but almost all the fifty United States. They currently make their home in central Florida with a dog who thinks she’s a cat.

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No. No. No. The state troopers had finally figured out where Jacob was—the morgue.

Would we lose Caleb too? Oh, God. Please, no. We can’t lose them both in one night.

Having survived stage 4 cancer, Jenny Leavitt thinks she’s endured the greatest test of her life. Little does she know that her worst nightmare is still to come. In a single moment, a collision with a drunk driver takes the life of her seventeen-year-old son and leaves her remaining son clinging to life with catastrophic injuries. Jenny and her husband, Myron, never intended to walk this road through the valley of the shadow of death, but life often doesn’t work out the way we plan.

Jenny’s life experiences have positioned her as a reluctant expert on sorrow, the pains of life, and battling hell with all you’ve got. But in those shattered places, she finds evidence that God still had his hands on her life. Join Jenny on the dark road with a faithful God who is true to His word in times of joy and times of testing. You’ll see his GodPrints everywhere.

Brief Book Description Copy

Jenny Leavitt thinks surviving stage 4 cancer was the greatest test of her life. Little does she know that her worst nightmare is still to come. In a single moment, a collision with a drunk driver takes the life of her seventeen-year-old son and leaves her remaining son clinging to life with catastrophic injuries. Jenny and her husband, Myron, never intended to walk this road through the valley of the shadow of death, but they learn that in both times of joy and times of testing, GodPrints are evident everywhere.