Highliners and Homecomings

Jen Karuza Schile has published nearly 100 articles in National Fisherman magazine and was published in Pacific Fishing. Her essays have been published in the anthologies A Matter of Choice: 25 People Who Transformed Their Lives, Steady as She Goes: Women’s Adventures at Sea, and P.S. What I Didn’t Say: Unsent Letters to Our Female Friends, for which she participated in a series of readings.   

Jen facilitates a writing circle and contributes to the newsletter for the Story Circle Network, a national organization of women writers. She received an honorable mention in the memoir category of the Writer’s Digest Writing Competition. Recently, Jen was a guest blogger at The Writer Mama Riffs and had an essay published in National Fisherman magazine.

Currently, Jen is writing a new feature for National Fisherman and working on her first full-length novel. She was chosen as “One to Watch” in the Rising Star category on the website for Get Known Before the Book Deal by Christina Katz.

If you’d like to contact Jen, you may send her an e-mail to jen@commercialfishingfamilies.com or visit her website.