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Jennifer Junghans is an author, illustrator and science writer with more than 20 years of experience as an independent environmental journalist.

In 2025, she launched her imprint Kindest Owl Press to independently publish work that fosters well-being and compassion for people, animals and the planet. Her first collection of workbooks helps children and women navigate divorce. Presently, she is at work on a quirky collection of children’s poetry filled with whimsy, play and imagination. She has also expanded her creative practice into illustration, working in both realism and whimsical character art.

She holds degrees in biological sciences and horticulture and a certificate in creative nonfiction from the University of California, but she considers the intricacies, nuances and surprises of life to be the best education.

She has a lifelong connection to the natural world and enjoys photographing the animals she crosses paths with and the places they call home.