Jennifer graduated
from Mississippi State University in 2005 with her Bachelor’s Degree in
Communication. She was the first of four
daughters to go to the home state of their fathers alma mater.
Jennifer’s passion for
writing began when she was eight years old.
Her mother handed her a multi-colored spiral journal and asked her to
document her life so that her mother could see what Jennifer was doing.
She remembers writing
in diaries every year and never fully finishing one before beginning another.
Jennifer’s earliest
memory of writing was a ten sentence song/poem called “Daddy’s Little Ticket”
that she typed and printed so her mother could review it. She remembers her mom laughing while complementing
the accomplishment and pushing Jennifer to expand the work. Her mother’s kind guidance led Jennifer to
completing a full three verse song, with a chorus to link them. No melody was ever written, but Jennifer does
sing it to a tune in her head.
Jennifer spent her
ages 10-13 attempting to form bands with her three sisters and close female
friends, while writing lyrics for possible songs. Eventually she adapted her writing to poetry
and short-story form as she found her favorite authors to be Louisa May Alcott,
Earnest Hemmingway and Jane Austen. In
high school she continued to journal and began online journal / blogs. Both her mother and father supported her
passion for writing and urged her to continue her poetry and short
stories. In late high school she began
to plot several stories that she wanted to create.
When she entered
college some of her writing took the back burner as she was in a new state
meeting new people, but in the winter of 2006/2007 she completed her first
manuscript – Here I am Again. With this completion she began to plot
more stories and finished several other short stories. One creative writing class with a new
professor, Mike Kardos.
I'll need to add some information of things that happened after 2007, being that now it's 2013 and I've done a few more things.
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