About Jen…

Jen Jackson Quintano is the author of Blow Sand in His Soul: Bates Wilson, the Heart of Canyonlands and currently writes a regular column as The Lumberjill. Over the years, her landscape-inspired essays have appeared in numerous publications and anthologies, including High Country News, Mountain Gazette, High Desert Journal, Red Rock Stories, The Capitol Reef Reader, and more. In addition to writing, she is the driving force behind The Pro-Voice Project, she is the mother of a sweetly sassy daughter, and she partners with her husband in an arborist business in Sandpoint, Idaho. The opposing forces of creative interiority and noisy sawdust generation can, at times, feel incompatible. And, at times, they are the two sides of a single breath—inhale, exhale—in which there is the sustenance of a life and the making of a world.

ACCOLADES:

“[Jen] is a poet-journalist with her finger on the pulse of canyon country."
—Terry Tempest Williams, author—

“...a young writer on the rise…someone stylistically and perceptually akin to the late Ellen Meloy.”
—M. John Fayhee, author—

"...a writer I believe is one of the best in the Southwest..."
—Dave, reader—

"An essay this fine is a rare thing in this era of bombast and hyperbole. I hope we will see more columns by Ms. Jackson."
—McKay Edwards, reader—