Out in nature among wild creatures is where I find much of my inspiration and feel most at home, as I am here wandering through the forest, birding in Germany.
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Jennifer Junghans is a science and environmental writer who has worked across journalism, communications and creative nonfiction writing projects. Her work has appeared in numerous publications and outlets for audiences of all ages across print, web and radio.
As a journalist, she focused her work on wildlife, nature and conservation, agriculture and food systems, environmental and ecosystem health, environmental justice and climate change. She’s written for Capital Public Radio, TIME magazine (as a contributing reporter), Science News Explores, Highlights for Children, Comstock’s, Orion online, Fodor’s Travel, E-The Environmental Magazine and many others, including those that no longer grace the world, such as Sacramento Magazine and Wildlife Conservation. Her environmental essays have appeared in the anthology “The Contemporary Reader” and on Public Radio Exchange programs “Living on Earth” and “The World.”
She has worked as a marketing and communications writer, as well as a science writer for major life sciences and biotech clients. In this role, she also ghostwrote bylined articles for scientists and C-suite executives published in Pharmacy Times, Clinical Leader, Modern Healthcare and Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News, among others. She is also an experienced editor, having served in diverse positions including editorial roles for a magazine and as an editorial director for a large science communications firm.
Outside of science and the environment, she is the author of a collection of workbooks for children navigating divorce (My Parents’ Divorce Through My Eyes) and the co-author of The Divorce Playbook for Smart Women: Avoid the Battle in Court.
Jennifer has degrees in biological sciences and horticulture, and completed a two-year certificate program in creative nonfiction from the UC system, but finds the intricacies, nuances and surprises of life to be the best form of education, which feed her wild soul and endless curiosity.