• Won an honorable mention in the Memoir category of the Writer's Digest Writing Competition.

Writing Affiliations

• Member of the Story Circle Network (a national organization of women writers)
• Member of the Pacific Northwest Writers Association
• Member of Whatcom Writers and Publishers

Recent Writing Activity

• Guest blogger on The Writer Mama Riffs in December 2008.
• Named a Rising Star (The Ones to Watch) on the Get Known Before the Book Deal website.
• Personal essay published in the February 2009 issue of National Fisherman magazine.
• Guest blogger on The Prosperous Writer.
  

The Very Latest

• Jen's feature article on commercial fishing families was published in the June 2010 edition of National Fisherman magazine, and she is also working on her first novel.