About

I left Texas at 19 and set out on a decades long meander through a career in public policy, international development and social impact—all the while thinking, all the while wondering, what it would be like, what it would really feel like, to be a writer. Then motherhood happened. Then Covid. Then a big reset. A friend said to me the other day, “Jen, you know what I love about what you just said? You called yourself a writer for the first time.” If I said it out loud, I guess it must be true.

I am a writer who draws inspiration from the lives I’ve been a part of, from the lives I’ve wondered about from afar and from the everyday curiosities of life, especially those that burrow into my subconsciousness until they slip out through the keystrokes, in the quiet hours of the morning, before anyone else in my house is awake, especially my three-year-old, who, any minute now, will pop up all rested and buoyant, ready as ever to start her day.

For now, anyway, writing is a sprint.