Jennifer Walkup

BIOGRAPHY

Award-winning author Jennifer Walkup is most often found writing, reading, and spending time with her husband and sons. Jennifer works as an English professor, editor, artist, and writer. She writes novels for teens (and teens at heart) and short fiction and poetry for everyone.

You can find her online at the links below:

Stories

Life, Interrupted

The Victorian Mansion, as its previous owners often referred to it, sat a half-mile from the quiet road. Rows of massive oaks lead along the dusty driveway, all the way to the front door, and dense woods framed the home like a knotted head of hair.
- Pages:
5
- Age Rating:
PG

The Last Supper

I won’t tell anyone about the diagnosis.
Not my mother or sister. Certainly not Jake. Maybe not even Steve.
- Pages:
9
- Age Rating:
PG

Under The Hudson

There’s all these picturesque poems, anecdotes about scattering loved
ones’ ashes. Things meant to be profound, symbolic.
- Pages:
5
- Age Rating:
PG

The 40-Year-Old Marigolds

The 40-Year-Old Marigolds” is a personal essay that ties gardening in childhood to the present day. It has themes of family ties, nature, nostalgia, and the bridge of place and time.
- Pages:
3
- Age Rating:
U