Jen's rather broad reading habits are reflected in her equally broad writing repertoire.

Jen's first book was published in 2016 - a Christian non-fiction work, SHE: A Journey of Faith, Hope and Love with Women of the Bible. SHE was awarded Best Non-Fiction at Australasia's CALEB awards. 

Jen went on to write a series of three children's picture books named after their endearing hero, Whimsy Primsy (2017). The collection was shortlisted for Best Children's Literature at Australasia's CALEB awards.

She then produced a book for her local school, Baboons On Balloons (2018) and two of her short stories have been published in Australian anthologies (2019 and 2020). 

Falling out of the SHE publishing journey, Jen has been asked to speak at several events, services and conferences both in NZ and Australia where she relates a message that places value on womanhood. She was also a guest speaker at the NZC Writers' Retreat in 2019 where she spoke on writing for children and the vocation of writing.

Jen studied English literature at Massey University a startling number of years ago. She graduated with honours and as a Massey Scholar (awarded to the top 5% of all graduates). It was here she fell under the spell of Middle English greats under the wing of Robert Neale (a student of C.S. Lewis).

Jen has other books waiting in the wings - a hilarious autobiographical non-fiction self-help book for women, and a novel where storylines interweave around the settling of Raglan (yet to be completed).

Somehow Jen fell into managing projects while living abroad, the most significant of which was managing a £300m transformation programme for Westminster City Council where she became a project ninja. She employs all these powers of roll-out and critical path and low-hanging fruit and deadline and (the ever-important) attention to detail in her writing projects and treats writing as her daily job.

Jen lives in Auckland with her three darling but chaotic children where she writes with a view of the sea. 

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