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Jean's career
as a writer reaches back to her early twenties when she began freelance writing, publishing newspaper articles on topics like the Cajun dictionary, prison ministry, the impact of the Farm Crisis on rice farmers, and how a rural town landed Louisiana’s first Federal Detention Center.
After two years of journalistic writing, she entered graduate school at George Mason University where she earned an MA. Her lily-pad career encompasses stints as a teaching artist for the Aesthetic Education Institute in Rochester, New York, as a composition instructor at Louisiana State University, as the co-director at the Writing Center at LSU, and as the director of the Communication Across the Curriculum program at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
You can find her essays in Short Reads, Brevity, HuffPost, Hippocampus Magazine, and elsewhere including this website. Through writing she explores the significance of ordinary objects, attachment to place, and the transformation concomitant with exposing ourselves to difference. Currently, she’s writing a memoir-in-essays about how growing up in small town Louisiana during the 60s and 70s shaped her identity. She lives in Baton Rouge, Louisiana with her husband. Most mornings you can find her walking her dog beneath the shade of ancient live oaks, scanning the curbs for still-good stuff to donate or repurpose. A few objects have appeared in her essays.
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