In first grade, Jenny wrote a book called The Teacher than Couldn’t Tell Time. While she's honed her craft a bit since those days, humor and human fallacy have remained central to her work.

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After completing a Bachelor of Arts in English, Jenny shifted direction to pursue her Master’s Degree in Clinical Social Work. While her writing practice proved inconsistent during her early years as a therapist, Jenny regularly wove journaling and poetry into her client’s treatment plans.

 

In 2014, Jenny got sober and instead of A.A., joined a women’s writing circle. Committing to her passion and a vibrant creative community was a game changer, both personally and professionally. The isolating conditions of the pandemic proved fertile for Jenny’s creative pursuits, ultimately carving her path to publication. 

 

When she isn’t writing or working as a neuro-oncology social worker at the Mayo Clinic, you'll find Jenny collecting shells along Florida's Atlantic coastline, serving as a Guardian ad Litem volunteer, painting, transporting her son to all of the things, and camping. Camping is her favorite because it means her son, husband, and dog are trapped. She'll eat them up, she loves them so. 

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Jenny is the author of But Still She Flies: Poems and Paintings and Can Buddhists Wear Mascara (and Other Things I’ve Googled). Her work has been featured in The Breakwater Review, (a) river rising: Anthology of Women’s Voices, The Moss Gossamer Anthology of North Florida Poets, A Gathering of Poets 2, and The Eunoia Review. Jenny was a finalist for the 2023 Perseroff Prize in poetry, and winner of both the 2022 Gold Nautilus Book Award and 2023 Homebound Publications poetry prize. 

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Her next collection is in the works...but the rest is TOP SECRET;-)...