Jennifer has been a fictional book critic for Publishers Weekly for three years. Her freelance writing appears in a variety of publications including Atlanta Business Magazine, Chic Galleria, Chicago Sun-Times, H2O Magazine, Inkling Magazine, Mother Nature Network, Pittsburgh Magazine, Savannah Magazine, The Charleston Review, The Piedmont Review, The South Magazine, The Sunday Paper, and additional regional magazines. She is the former managing editor of an aviation lifestyle publication with five bimonthly issues based in Atlanta.
Jennifer is a co-founding editor of damselfly press, an award-winning online literary journal devoted to publishing fiction, poetry, and nonfiction written by women. The website is http://www.damselflypress.net. She is also a reader for Tin House Magazine.
She received her BA in Communication with a double major in English Literature from Saint Mary’s College in South Bend, IN.
After slogging away in Corporate America for an undetermined amount of time (she either lost track under the fluorescent lighting, or years slipped by while she was sitting on the Kennedy Expressway in Chicago), she received her MFA in Creative Writing with a double concentration in Fiction and Nonfiction from Chatham University in Pittsburgh.
She is the 2008 recipient of the Alumnae Graduate Cornerstone Award for Writing from Chatham.