Jennifer Vanderbes (born 1974) is an American novelist. She is best known for her debut novel Easter Island, which received positive reviews from The Washington Post Book World,The Los Angeles Times, and The Christian Science Monitor, and was translated into sixteen languages. The novel mixes together adventure, mystery, and romance in several plotlines. Each of the novel's different plotlines is linked to Easter Island, the remote South Pacific island famed for its immense Moai (statues).
A graduate of Yale University and the Iowa Writers' Workshop, Vanderbes is a New York native and a former Colgate University faculty member. She is now at work on a second novel.