Jay Crownover

Jay Crownover is an American author of new adult and contemporary romance, best known for the Marked Men series, a tattoo-and-motorcycle-culture romance line launched with Rule in 2012. The series' popularity has carried beyond the page: a film adaptation, Marked Men: Rule + Shaw, has been announced with Nick Cassavetes directing and Chase Stokes and Sydney Taylor cast in the lead roles. Crownover followed Marked Men with the related Point series, continuing the same found-family, small-town-Colorado world with a new set of couples.

In 2019, Crownover co-wrote a pair of novellas, Girl in Luv and Boy in Luv, with fellow romance novelist Rebecca Yarros -- published before Yarros's Fourth Wing became a global bestselling fantasy-romance phenomenon.

Crownover has been cited by other romance authors, including Natasha Preston, as an influence on their own start in the genre. Detailed personal biographical information -- hometown, education, and similar background -- is not well documented in the public sources available for this profile, so this entry sticks to her verified bibliography and industry reception.