Publication History

2011 www.mothervoices.com, founder, editor and contributing author

2009 COS Cyber-Compendium 2009, Forward and 13 additional “COS Suggests” columns

2007- 2009 Daily Local Newspaper Parenting blog columnist, "Two plus two is for..."

2007-2009 Regular contributions to “My Story Lives” on-line arts journal

2007-2011 Reviewer for Elevate Difference.org (formerly Feminist Review.org) Brooklyn, NY / Athens, GA

Reviews include: The Sixties, Stepmonster, Just Like Family, Silence is Wild CD, Modern Tibetan Literature and Social Change, On Their Own, Starved For Science, Rough Guide to California, Now You See It…, Democracy Detained, Meeting the Universe Halfway, Zodiac Girls, Recipe for Rebellion, Tom Gavornick CD, Trusting Calliope CD

2006-2007 Regular contributing freelance writer for Past Times News, Philadelphia, PA

Articles include: “Ludlow Massacre Brings Mother Jones to Washington”, “You’re Fired! The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo and Nicholas Trist”, “First African-American Church Started Up By Bridget ‘Biddy’ Mason”, “Women Go on a Hunger Strike for the Right to Vote”, “Texas Wants In – But Should Texas Become a State?” , “Priests Forced to Leave”  

2005 Witch, (Paperback, 6 X 9, 348 pp.) ISBN: 9781420821093

April 2004 “Beta Deep Down” Essay, Hinge Online, Philadelphia

Sept. 2003 “Writing without Letters” Essay, “Uncapped” www.seattlewritergrrls.com

June 2002 “The Conductor” Fiction, www.pieriansprings.net

April 2002 “Gray Matter” Narrative Non-Fiction, www.thepedestalmagazine.com

March 1993 “Fighting Racism with Small Business”, Seattle Press

Education

2001 University of Washington, Advanced Novel Writing Certificate Course, Seattle, WA

1999 Richard Hugo House, Screenwriting, Seattle, WA

1997 SCCC, Short fiction, Seattle, WA

1992 Ithaca College B.S. Communications
1990 Ithaca College London Centre, London, UK

1988 Conestoga High School, Berwyn, PA

2002 Me meets 2011 Mom-Me

2002 – So, you finally had children. That’s great! How is our writing going? Do you have more essential wisdom? Do you feel fulfilled? Could you die a happy woman tomorrow?

2011 – I... well, I write. The writing is coming along. Fulfilled, um, I guess. I mean, the kids are great; I love them so much… it’s incredible really. What did you say? Did you say DIE? Why would you say that?! I can’t DIE I have two children, what would happen to them? Crap did I miss my last checkup? Is this table clean? How did you get here anyway? Have I finally gone insane?

2002 – Whoa, calm down. I just meant that we spent a lot of years striving for inner peace and that feeling – like it was all good and if something happened… everything was in order, you know? You remember that, right?

2011 – Oh, that. Yeah… that was sort of a twenties phase. I’m really busy now. They depend on me. I mean, if something happened, it is what it is, but I am not by any means ready to go anywhere… speaking of that I need to make a note to remember to call the insurance company.

2002 – (shudders) Well, what music do you listen to now?

2011 – Here, you can look at my iPod.

2002 – Hhmmm, so some of this seems legit, who’s Dan Zanes? Wait, isn’t this one from a Disney movie? Ok, this one sounds good, what is this song called?

2011 – Oh I like that one… I have no idea, doesn’t it say on the little screen?

2002 – You don’t know what this song is called? It says you have played it 46 times.

2011 – I don’t know what anything is called anymore. It doesn’t matter… anyway I have trouble driving and using that thing at the same time, the kids distract me, it isn’t safe… and I can’t have ear buds in when we’re together. They ask me a lot of questions…

2002 – Is that your minivan parked over there?

2011 – Yep.

2002 – The dirty one with the bent fender? Seriously? Wait a minute… are you actually reading Chelsea Handler? Oh crap I can’t have kids, look what they’ve done to you!

2011 – Oh that, it’s just a ride… remember. It’s roomy but not a gas guzzler, the carpet is trashed so we don’t have to worry about it and I plan to drive it into the ground with my pet dead bumblebee rotting on the dashboard. And this? What am I supposed to be reading? The Infinite Jest? I don’t have that kind of time. Be thankful I am reading anything.

2002 – I thought things would be different, that we were special.

2011 – Special? Yeah, it’d be just uber fab to turn up somewhere and not have any equipment because it didn’t fit in the awesome ride we’re sporting. Cool like that and all totally going out at night so that someone else could be there for the nightmare hugs or the can I sleep with you tonight Moms? No way. I mean, I go out sometimes, but it’s just the world. It’s pretty much the same. Oh remember that time when we were with that guy, what’s his name? And we went to that place, oh I don’t know, it had a statue in the corner and they served ceviche in glass globes?

2002 – You are an idiot. I will not let this happen to me.

2011 – Well you’re a child. Just wait. I may even work in an office again.

2002 – You wouldn’t dare…

2011 – Do they still use Word 97?

 

(Previously posted to (m)other voices, June 9, 2011 )

Welcome back

Some of you know of me as Jennifer M. Wilson, author of Witch, a novel about Bridget Bishop of Salem that was written in part out of historical curiosity and in part out of frustration with our current political, judicial, and general value systems. It is available on Amazon. I am now going by Lloyd, after getting hitched, having twins, and moving to PA from WA.