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 Personal Homepage Latest Articles All Jennifer Jensen's Articles Contact me Recent Blog PostTime to Prep for National Novel Writing Month
NaNoWriMo begins on November 1st, and I'm in the game this year! If you are too, begin building a plot and/or characters now. 
Jennifer Jensen is a writer and music teacher based in Indianapolis. She has nearly 250 non-fiction articles in print publications, primarily in Indianapolis Monthly and the Indianapolis Star, but her true love is fiction. She is a graduate of the Institute of Children’s Literature, and her first published story came from that course. She has a dozen children’s short stories published, some internationally, and has received two Indiana Arts Commission grants for her fiction. Her current project, a chapter book for younger readers, received the R. Karl Largent Award at the 2006 Midwest Writer’s Workshop for the best work-in-progress regardless of genre. She is a member of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators, a co-founder of the Northwest Indy Children’s Writers Group, and a past member of the Society of Professional Journalists. She attends conferences and workshops both to learn and to network with editors, agents, and fellow writers. She also teaches creative writing workshops for high schoolers, and is developing a workshop for upper elementary and middle school students. When she is not writing, Jennifer teaches Kindermusik to preschoolers and private piano lessons to older children and adults, reads voraciously, and loves to learn just about anything. She is also an avid genealogist, teaching at a genealogy conference for several years and volunteering at the local Family History Center. She majored in Elementary Education at several universities while her husband was in the Navy, and then switched to an English major at Indiana University. Someday, probably long after her children have graduated from college, she’ll actually finish her degree! Personal blog: Of Writings and Wanderings Check in and see what I'm up to! |
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