Jennell Jaquays

Jennell Jaquays is a fantasy author and artist.

Jennell discovered Dungeons & Dragons while in college in 1975 and produced a fanzine that debuted in the same month as Dragon magazine (then known as The Dragon). Permission was given to publish the fanzine, titled The Dungeoneer, by Tim Kask of TSR. Jennell then began submitting her art to TSR to be published in The Dragon, eventually getting to draw the cover art for issue #21 in 1978. Jennell worked as a freelance designer and artist after that for several companies, including TSR, writing her first Forgotten Realms piece, the adventure module The Shattered Statue in 1987. Later, she would become a full time illustrator for TSR and briefly was the company's Graphics Director before she left shortly before TSR was acquired by Wizards of the Coast. Since then, she has primarily been working in the video games industry but also owns a fantasy illustration studio called Dragongirl Studios as well as an RPG design brand called Fifth Wall Games and Miniatures.

Jennell was inducted into the Academy of Adventure Gaming Arts & Design Hall of Fame in 2017.

Sourcebooks

 * Lords of Darkness (1988)
 * The Savage Frontier
 * The Shattered Statue