Author, teacher, lec­turer — Jill brings her hands-on and aca­d­e­mic expe­ri­ence to the issue of women and voice. Jill presents dynamic work­shops, and her client list includes Hewlett-Packard’s Women at Work series, the National Speaker’s Asso­ci­a­tion, Soci­ety for Tech­ni­cal Com­mu­ni­ca­tions, and col­leges and uni­ver­si­ties.First trained as a tech­ni­cal writer for over 20 years, Jill was taught to write mute — noth­ing breath­ing, just the facts. Erase the per­son from the piece. This dis­ci­pline of struc­ture and func­tion over voice both strength­ened her writ­ing craft, and fueled Jill’s desire to under­stand the art of writ­ing: to find her voice.

 

She appren­ticed her­self to women authors ages 24 to 84, and learned how they dis­cov­ered, defined, and devel­oped their writ­ing voice. In her on-going work­shops and sem­i­nars, she con­tin­ues to help women find their authen­tic cre­ative voice.

Jill holds degrees in math­e­mat­ics, human devel­op­ment and psy­chol­ogy, and com­mu­ni­ca­tions from Vas­sar, Har­vard, and The Union Insti­tute & Uni­ver­sity.
She’s an east coast writer who spends as much time as she can in Umbria, Italy right on the Tus­can bor­der. Fol­low her adven­tures on her blog at www.eatplaycook.com