ABOUT
Jill writes articles for magazines and blogs and conjures fantasy worlds for children in the form of middle-grade adventure novels. She also offers editing services for both fiction and non-fiction work.
Jill has been published in various nature anthologies, national magazines, literary journals, and by leading brands and conservation organizations.
She currently serves as Lead Writer and Marketing Manager at LONDONmiddlebury, a boutique marketing firm that develops holistic marketing ecosystems for clients around the world.
Jill lives on a gravel road in Vermont with one husband, two sons, and a four hairy creatures generously known as “pets.”
PUBLICATIONS
Jill is author of a book called Entering This Land: A History of Knoll Farm written for the Center for Whole Communities that explores the deep geological and settlement history of a Vermont hill farm.
During her freelance years, Jill published a collection of conservation profiles for the Vermont Land Trust and the Preservation Trust of Vermont while serving as a theater critic for Seven Days.
Her work has appeared in Popular Mechanics, American Nature Writing 2002, Northern Woodlands Magazine, Vermont Sports Magazine, Esquire, Wild Earth, Money Magazine, Parent Co., We Are Teachers, and on WAMC’s The Round Table.
Jill was inspired to write a children’s book upon the birth of her eldest nephews. As these children and her own have grown, the story has grown into a MG environmental fantasy adventure trilogy about the clash of two rival elven tribes caught in the throes of natural disaster. She is currently rewriting the novel as a dovetailed narrative between its two main characters—a doozy of a task, but well worth it.
BACKGROUND
Jill graduated with a BA in Environmental Studies & Literature from Middlebury College and earned a MA in Literature from the Bread Loaf School of English.
She began her career in book publishing with The Lyons Press in New York City and then returned to the Green Mountains to become an English Teacher, Writing Tutor, and Soccer Coach at Vermont Academy.
Interested in communications and storytelling of all kinds, Jill worked in Traffic and Production at Vermont Public Radio, served as a Senior Communications Associate at the Orton Family Foundation, and became the first Communications Director at Aqua ViTea Kombucha. She brought her collective editorial experience together as Content and Brand Manager for Chelsea Green Publishing.
While freelance editing, Jill found her way back into the classroom as an interdisciplinary core support teacher, club advisor, trip leader, library staffer, and mentor at Champlain Valley Union High School.
Now Lead Writer & Marketing Manager at LONDONmiddlebury, Jill enjoys getting paid to do what she loves. In her spare time, she enjoys yoga, hiking, skiing, biking, wilderness, reading, and, most of all, her family.