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Jamie spent her early childhood years living alongside the Buffalo River in Northwest Arkansas without television or neighbors. Those long, formative hours spent exploring the wild river and peaceful forests set in motion a way of looking at the world that later informed her as a storyteller. When she was twelve years old, her aunt gave her a journal with gentle instructions to "write about it" and she's been writing ever since. Jamie has over twenty years of storytelling experience as a songwriter, filmmaker, and novelist. Jamie's writing has been published in Tablet Magazine and she was honored to spend April 2022 as artist in residence at the historic Beard And Lady Inn. She lives in Southern California with her husband and son and enjoys hiking, cuddling her dogs, baking bread, and living life with the intention of adding things to her "writer's compost heap" as coined by Neil Gaiman.