An American ex-pat who moved to Europe in 1996 to become a writer in Italy but fell to the whims of life and spent five years traveling Europe before getting her degree in Studio Arts with the University of Maryland University College. In 2006 she was hired by the U.S. Army's NATO Support Activity in Brussels, Belgium to create am Arts and Cultural Center. The center was noticed by a U.S. Army general and Jen was invited to present the importance of art and cultural activities to the European based American Commanders. She was immediately hired to create an Arts and Cultural Center for the U.S. Army Headquarters in Heidelberg, Germany. In 2010 she left to open up her own paint-it-yourself ceramics shop in Heidelberg, Germany. In 2016 she returned to her dream of writing and wrote her first screenplay which won several awards. She sold a short to Archer Entertainment Group to be part of a feature film ensemble. Her latest drama landed in the BlueCat semifinals and is currently in the competition circuit.