Jen Trynin is a singer-songwriting guitar player who released two records during the ’90s alt-rock years with Warner Bros.: Cockamamie and Gun Shy, Trigger Happy. After falling short of expectations to be The Next Big Thing, she wrote the memoir Everything I’m Cracked Up to Be (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2006). She is the co-creator of Earfull, Boston’s beloved and popular reading/music series, and is at work on her next book, Death is a Number, from which “Hello Kitty” is adapted.