Hello and welcome

Jennifer Junghans is an author and illustrator with a background in science and environmental journalism.

In 2025, she launched her imprint Kindest Owl Press to independently publish work that fosters well-being and compassion. 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, written from a child’s perspective.

Recently she 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.