Jennifer Turnquist lives with her family in the suburbs of St. Paul. After earning a BA in psychology from Drew University, she worked for several years in a neurophysiology lab at Johns Hopkins Hospital. Later, she switched to copyediting, which allows her to improve the accuracy and readability of documents, including articles and white papers, websites, short stories, and book-length projects, both fiction and nonfiction.

When not writing or editing, she enjoys practicing her tourist-level German skills, gardening with Minnesota native plants, and reading.

Publications

“Heavy Lifting”
Cleaver Magazine, Summer 2018

“Skyride”
Jimson Weed, Spring 2024

Selections from my Goodreads bookshelf

Edible Wild Plants of the Prairie: An Ethnobotanical Guide
Gaudy Night
The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
Is God to Blame?: Beyond Pat Answers to the Problem of Suffering
Clouds of Witness
The Count of Monte Cristo
Code Talker: The First and Only Memoir By One of the Original Navajo Code Talkers of WWII
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
The Glass Castle
One Hundred Years of Solitude
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
Girl in Translation
The Tempest
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
A Christmas Carol
Landscaping with Fruit: Strawberry ground covers, blueberry hedges, grape arbors, and 39 other luscious fruits to make your yard an edible paradise.
The Complete Stories
When Breath Becomes Air
Breathing Lessons
Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose