Jenny Ruth Yasi has lived on island off the coast of Maine since 1984, through married parent and grandparenthood, several home occupations (herbalist, community newspaper editor/publisher, dog trainer, French teacher, guitar instructor). She is a relentless communicator, via stand-up comedy, singer-songwriting, canine choreography (seriously), fiction writing, blogging and feature writing. She believes education will save the world, and that information is the ultimate reinforcer.
Jenny has a lot to say. Her writing was awarded a Carbonneau scholarship to Stone Coast, the Omni International Peace Writing Prize in fiction (for her novel, "The Whole Stunned World"), and publication University of Maine's "Word's and Images 2000." Jenny's fiction has been anthologized in "Women Behaving Badly" and in "Liberation Lit 2009." She graduated from Vermont College in 1998 where she focused her studies in character development in short fiction, under mentor and writer Matthew Goodman.