I’m Jennifer Larson, and I’m a freelance writer and editor based in Nashville, Tennessee. I’ve been a professional writer for 15 years, and I’ve been freelancing since 2006. I’m currently writing for several publications, both traditional and online. I specialize in writing about health care and family issues.
I originally started this blog to have some fun and weigh in on the writing life, the media and other current events but felt compelled to blog about random phenomena sometimes, too. I also blog about current health care, medical, nursing and family issues. And yes, I write about baseball from time to time.
Freelance and writing experience
*I write frequent articles for NurseZone.com and two of its sister websites (NurseConnect and Healthcare Briefings).
*I write regular health care articles for a consumer audience for the website of Spry magazine (www.spryliving.com).
*I’m also a featured blogger on the website for Nashville Parent magazine, and a contributing writer for the blog Bringing Up Nashville .
*Additionally, I have written copy and health care stories for the Vanderbilt Diabetes Center at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and for UC San Diego Health Systems.
*My work has also appeared in the following publications: Babble.com, Her Nashville, Desert Magazine, Women magazine, Breathe magazine and Vanderbilt International magazine.
*In the past, my writing also appeared in The San Diego Union-Tribune, The San Diego Daily Transcript, American Journalism Review, and Memphis magazine.
Journalism experience
*Staff reporter for The Desert Sun, the daily newspaper of Palm Springs, California.
*News and features writer for NurseZone.com, a national nursing and health care website based in San Diego, California.
*Newsletter editor for The Church Health Center, a health care non-profit in Memphis, Tennessee.
*Staff writer for Memphis Business Journal and Memphis Health Care News in Memphis, Tennessee.
Education and professional memberships
*Bachelor’s degree in English from Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee.
*Master’s degree in journalism from the University of Maryland.
*Memberships in the Society of Professional Journalists, the Education Writers Association and the Association of Health Care Journalists.
Community involvement
*All About Women board member (www.allaboutwomen.org)
*Junior League of Nashville member (www.jlnashville.org)
*Young Leaders Council of Nashville
*Westminster Presbyterian Church member (www.nashvillewpc.org)
I care! I care!
You amaze me. You have to be busy, but you somehow find a way to let that natural writer’s voice belt out a few lines daily. I’m proud of you, lady.
Looking forward to more posts!
Hi, I stumbled onto your blog after seeing one of your comments on FWG. Then, I saw one of your articles on the side of your page here that covered the Coachella Valley! You wrote for the Desert Sun, I interned there. Small world! I live here in the valley, but I see your bio says you’re in Tennessee. Are you local to the desert? Anyway, I was just shocked to see an article by a fellow freelancer that was based on the Coachella Valley! Thought I’d say hi!
Hi Jennifer,
I stumbled on your blog and am amazed by the similiarities we share, besides just our name. I too am a freelance writer, and strangly enough, I chose the same theme for my wordpress blog. It’s a strange, strange world…isn’t it?
You have some EXCELLENT credits!
Hey there,
I am an old Doc who likes to write fiction, and I play bluegrass mandolin on my weekends off. I call my genre physician bluegrass fiction.
You have an impressive resume! I hope you will consider a look at my blog. I am still learning to write, and open to any constructive criticism.
Dr. Tom Bibey
drtombibey.wordpress.com
I found your blog through FWG and I’m impressed with your background! I hope you’ll check out my Web site sometime; I’ve dedicated my blog to cancer survivors. I’m a 19-year head and neck cancer survivor, my dad has colon cancer and I’m writing the biography of a university student-focused manager who survived five types of cancer and lived to be 78.
Well I am so very glad I stumbled upon your blog Jennifer. Not only am I in the process of putting together mine, I am a published writer, a freelance writer, a J-School graduate and mom of a two-year-old.
To echo Monica, “I care, I care,” about what you have here. Very interesting and a great resource for people like me, like you
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Lastly, and I cannot leave without mentioning the serendipity of finding your blog because of Ms. Lisa Cunningham’s comment. I too am a cancer survivor, had breast cancer when I was 23. It changed my life in many ways, but surprisingly in mostly great ways. I am lucky and I am profoundly aware of that. And feel lucky again to have found both of your blogs.
Much fortune to you all,
-Barbi