Jennifer Armstrong
6D Blog Writer
6D Seminar Instructor
Jennifer Armstrong has spent her life making things; she has had a long career of writing books for children, decades of gardening, painting, making music, and cooking. A 2023 graduate of the T. Colin Campbell Center for Nutrition Studies course in Plant- Based Nutrition, she has also combined her interest in sustainability with her love of food by learning how to can and dehydrate, saving as much of the local harvest as possible for use throughout the year. She lives in upstate New York.
Jennifer is both a blog writer and event moderator at 6D Living. Her blog post series 365 in 365 explores how we can all diversify and improve our microbiome. Jennifer also helped to moderate and served as an administrator in our 365 in 365 game. Jennifer now expands her services to our community by offering this wonderful new writing workshop.
Memoir Writing Seminar
with Jennifer Armstrong
Memoir Writing Seminar with Jennifer ArmstrongTue, Jun 09Zoom - Tuesdays - 10:00am PST / 1:00pm EST
As an author who has utilized multiple types of narrative structures, Jennifer believes that a short story is only one of many narrative structures. We create narrative with jokes, ballads, tales, novels, poems, anecdotes, etc... While there are many satisfactions to be found in the conventional beginning-middle-end narrative that is common in short fiction for kids. After 9/11, she wrote that books can be the "enemy of violent zealotry" and work against
chaos and fear.
To find an Independent Bookstore near you, go to Bookshop.org: Buy books online. Support local bookstores.
Jennifer Armstrong is the author of numerous award-winning picture books and novels. She is the winner of the Orbis Pictus Award for Outstanding Nonfiction for Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World. Many of her books have been designated as Notable Books by the American Library Association and the International Reading Association.
Best known for writing historical fiction, she has also been successful in creating picture books, easy readers, chapter books, young adult novels, as well as nonfiction.
Her works include Hugh Can Do and Chin Yu Min and the Ginger Cat (both ALA Notable books); The Dreams of Mairhe Mehan (a BCCB Blue Ribbon Book); and Black-Eyed Susan (a New York Public Library Best Book). Her first novel, Steal Away, was an ALA Best Book for Young Adults, an ALA Notable book, and a Golden Kite Honor book. Other titles include Pockets, Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World, Magnus at the Fire, Photo by Brady, and Once Upon a Banana.
Jennifer offers her books through independent book stores and you can explore her work by searching for an independent bookstore near you. "Independent bookstores are the heart and soul of the book world." - Jennifer
To find an Independent Bookstore near you, go to Bookshop.org: Buy books online. Support local bookstores.
365 in 365 6D Blog Series - by Jennifer Armstrong
Jennifer's blog series focuses on how we can all diversify our plant nutrition and how that can impact not only our own lives, but the lives of our loved ones, our friends, our communities and our planet - not to mention the animals!
