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"Bubbling up in our own good time-- online."
| Jennifer Byers Chambers |
Biography: Volume 4 Issue 1 - "The Price of Recovery"
Jen Chambers was one of Judy’s first volunteers with Groundwaters and is the person on our
team who provides the youth and fresh ideas that keep us all on track. Jen’s eagerness to
carry out the projects that she takes on usually guarantees success. She’s not afraid of new
directions and seeks out knowledge on how best to proceed whether it is through writing
conferences, mentors or research. She’s the fiction writer on our team. Her wonderful
imagination and her ability to make characters and settings come to life for her readers will
ensure that she will get noticed some day soon by the publishing world. In fact, her first book,
Learning Life Again has just been released and can be purchased on Amazon.com and
Barnes and Noble websites. See Jen's own website to learn more about her books - http:
//www.jenniferbchambers.com/
Besides being an excellent writer, Jen is the mother of two (Riley and Quinn) and the wife of
Ryan Chambers, a teacher and coach at Mapleton High School.
She has written for numerous publications including the Register-Guard and the West
Lane News. She is in the process of marketing her book, Learning Life, which is the story
about two women’s struggles with traumatic brain injury and how daily chores affect their lives.
“TBI” is a much too familiar subject for Jen, who has lived her story following a near-fatal car
accident during her high school years at Crow High School.
Currently Jen is enrolled as a junior at Eastern Oregon University. She helped organize
The Misfits and Mavericks Literary Society, an adult writers’ group, and Writers of the
Universe, a teen writing group at the Fern Ridge Public Library. Both have been actively
meeting for the past three years.
She was also in the cast of the Applegate Regional Theatre Production of Lumberjacks
and Wedding Belles as "Ma Scrubbs." She also volunteers and substitutes as an Educational
Assistant at Veneta Elementary School. She is a member of Willamette Writers Group and the
Brain Injury Association of America. You can find examples of her work and links to magazines
and brain-injury-related sites on her website.
In addition to Anna and Learning Life Again, Chambers has published short stories in
numerous anthologies. She has been seen in Redbook, AOL.com, The Nashville Examiner,
The Register-Guard, ABC-TV and radio. A mother of three, she works as an editor for
Groundwaters Magazine.
For more information, including book cover or author photo, please contact Jennifer
Chambers at (541) 935-4994 or see her website, http://www.jenniferbchambers.com. (Fall
2011)
Website address: http://www.geocities.com/jenniferbyerschambers; http://www.
jenniferbchambers.com/
Index of Groundwaters contributions:
Volume 1 Issue 3 - “Shark” (essay)
Volume 1 Issue 4 - “Anna” (fiction); “Victoria, British Columbia” (travel/non-fiction)
Volume 2 Issue 2 - “Forgiveness” and “Anna’s Discovery” (fiction)
Volume 2 Issue 3 - “How To Attend a Writer’s Conference” (personal experience/non-fiction);
“Absolutely Fabulous Soap Company” (community)
Volume 2 Issue 4 - “Overheard at the Post-Soccer Season Pool Party” (personal
experience/non-fiction); “Anna’s Return” (fiction); “A Cube With a View” (community)
Volume 3 Issue 1 - “Take a Deep Breath – A Fall Tea-Time Menu” (cooking); “Sunshine in
the Heart of Fern Ridge” (community); “A Friend to Share the Journey” (fiction)
Volume 3 Issue 2 - recipes (cooking); “The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid” (book
review); “Sky Word” (fiction)
Volume 3 Issue 3 - recipe (cooking) “Sketching in the Details” (fiction); photograph
Volume 3 Issue 4 - “From the Editor” (editorial); recipes (cooking); “A Dark Piece of Sky” and
“What Happens Next. An ‘Anna’ Story” (fiction); “Tipis and Trees: Long Tom Sawmill”
(community); “Take a Book For a Walk” (book review)
Volume 4 Issue 1 - “Writers, Beware of Publish-America!” and “Groundwaters: Bubbling Up
On-Line in New Ways” (editorial); “What’s On My Bedside Table” (book review); “Serendipity:
Groundwaters Gets an Intern” (profile); “The Price of Recovery” and “A Fire in the Night”
(fiction); “Groundwaters on the Road” (photography)
Volume 4 Issue 2 - “Calling All Creative Types” (community); “A Question of Standards”
(editorial); “Travels With Hannah Stevenson” (fiction); “Cookin’ With Jen” (cooking);
photography
Volume 4 Issue 3 - “Working Undercover” and “Town Hall Magic” (fiction); “Cookin’ With Jen”
(cooking)
Volume 4 Issue 4 - “Local Color: Camp 18” (travel/non-fiction); “Down the Violet Path:
Further Adventures of Hannah Stevenson” (fiction); “Impotence” (essay); “Cookin’ With Jen”
(cooking)
Volume 5 Issue 1 - “Bittersweet” and “They’re Back!” (essay); “Willamette Writers
Conference” (personal experience/non-fiction); “A Beacon in the Storm; Further Adventures of
Hannah Stevenson” (fiction); “Field Trips: Family Travel Spots” (travel/non-fiction); “Cookin’
With Jen” (cooking)
Volume 5 Issue 2 - “Patty Byers, Cover Artist” (profile); “Wicked on the Wind; Hannah Finds
Her Destiny” (fiction); “Cookin’ With Jen” (cooking)
Volume 5 Issue 3 - "Freedom Has Its Price: Angus the Celt" (fiction); "Years of Wonder at the
Central Little School" (business profile); “Cookin’ With Jen” (cooking)
Volume 5 Issue 4 - "The Hummingbird" (poetry); "Flood Songs: An Angus the Celt Story"
(fiction); “Cookin’ With Jen” (cooking)
Volume 6 Issue 1 - "I Became a Teenage Bride at the Church of Elvis" (non-fiction/personal
experience); "Journeymen - To a New Land: Angus the Celt" (fiction); “Cookin’ With Jen”
(cooking)
Volume 6 Issue 2 - "Remembrances of the Great Depression" (profile/interview); “Cookin’
With Jen” (cooking)
Volume 6 Issue 3 - “Mares. Ya Gotta Love 'Em" (book review); "The Meeting" (poetry); "Love
on the Lost Continent. An Atlantis Mystery" (fiction); “Cookin’ With Jen” (cooking)
Volume 6 Issue 4 - “Groundwaters at Chateau Lorane Fine Art and Wine Festival
(community); "Love On The Lost Continent (Part 2)" (fiction); “Cookin’ With Jen” (cooking);
"Outreach Program to Reach Local Youth" (community)
Volume 7 Issue 1 - "Love On The Lost Continent (Part 3)" (fiction); “Cookin’ With Jen”
(cooking)
Volume 7 Issue 2 - "Miracle in the Mall" and "Love On The Lost Continent (conclusion)"
(fiction); “Cookin’ With Jen” (cooking)
Volume 7 Issue 3 - “Cookin’ With Jen” (cooking)
Volume 7 Issue 4 - “Cookin’ With Jen” (cooking)
Volume 8 Issue 1 - Cover photo "Glow Sunflower"; "Anna; Girl Forced Into the Body of
Queen Elizabeth I" (review of Jen's book); "Full Ride" (fiction); “Cookin’ With Jen” (cooking)
Jen Chambers was one of Judy’s first volunteers with Groundwaters and is the person on our
team who provides the youth and fresh ideas that keep us all on track. Jen’s eagerness to
carry out the projects that she takes on usually guarantees success. She’s not afraid of new
directions and seeks out knowledge on how best to proceed whether it is through writing
conferences, mentors or research. She’s the fiction writer on our team. Her wonderful
imagination and her ability to make characters and settings come to life for her readers will
ensure that she will get noticed some day soon by the publishing world. In fact, her first book,
Learning Life Again has just been released and can be purchased on Amazon.com and
Barnes and Noble websites. See Jen's own website to learn more about her books - http:
//www.jenniferbchambers.com/
Besides being an excellent writer, Jen is the mother of two (Riley and Quinn) and the wife of
Ryan Chambers, a teacher and coach at Mapleton High School.
She has written for numerous publications including the Register-Guard and the West
Lane News. She is in the process of marketing her book, Learning Life, which is the story
about two women’s struggles with traumatic brain injury and how daily chores affect their lives.
“TBI” is a much too familiar subject for Jen, who has lived her story following a near-fatal car
accident during her high school years at Crow High School.
Currently Jen is enrolled as a junior at Eastern Oregon University. She helped organize
The Misfits and Mavericks Literary Society, an adult writers’ group, and Writers of the
Universe, a teen writing group at the Fern Ridge Public Library. Both have been actively
meeting for the past three years.
She was also in the cast of the Applegate Regional Theatre Production of Lumberjacks
and Wedding Belles as "Ma Scrubbs." She also volunteers and substitutes as an Educational
Assistant at Veneta Elementary School. She is a member of Willamette Writers Group and the
Brain Injury Association of America. You can find examples of her work and links to magazines
and brain-injury-related sites on her website.
In addition to Anna and Learning Life Again, Chambers has published short stories in
numerous anthologies. She has been seen in Redbook, AOL.com, The Nashville Examiner,
The Register-Guard, ABC-TV and radio. A mother of three, she works as an editor for
Groundwaters Magazine.
For more information, including book cover or author photo, please contact Jennifer
Chambers at (541) 935-4994 or see her website, http://www.jenniferbchambers.com. (Fall
2011)
Website address: http://www.geocities.com/jenniferbyerschambers; http://www.
jenniferbchambers.com/
Index of Groundwaters contributions:
Volume 1 Issue 3 - “Shark” (essay)
Volume 1 Issue 4 - “Anna” (fiction); “Victoria, British Columbia” (travel/non-fiction)
Volume 2 Issue 2 - “Forgiveness” and “Anna’s Discovery” (fiction)
Volume 2 Issue 3 - “How To Attend a Writer’s Conference” (personal experience/non-fiction);
“Absolutely Fabulous Soap Company” (community)
Volume 2 Issue 4 - “Overheard at the Post-Soccer Season Pool Party” (personal
experience/non-fiction); “Anna’s Return” (fiction); “A Cube With a View” (community)
Volume 3 Issue 1 - “Take a Deep Breath – A Fall Tea-Time Menu” (cooking); “Sunshine in
the Heart of Fern Ridge” (community); “A Friend to Share the Journey” (fiction)
Volume 3 Issue 2 - recipes (cooking); “The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid” (book
review); “Sky Word” (fiction)
Volume 3 Issue 3 - recipe (cooking) “Sketching in the Details” (fiction); photograph
Volume 3 Issue 4 - “From the Editor” (editorial); recipes (cooking); “A Dark Piece of Sky” and
“What Happens Next. An ‘Anna’ Story” (fiction); “Tipis and Trees: Long Tom Sawmill”
(community); “Take a Book For a Walk” (book review)
Volume 4 Issue 1 - “Writers, Beware of Publish-America!” and “Groundwaters: Bubbling Up
On-Line in New Ways” (editorial); “What’s On My Bedside Table” (book review); “Serendipity:
Groundwaters Gets an Intern” (profile); “The Price of Recovery” and “A Fire in the Night”
(fiction); “Groundwaters on the Road” (photography)
Volume 4 Issue 2 - “Calling All Creative Types” (community); “A Question of Standards”
(editorial); “Travels With Hannah Stevenson” (fiction); “Cookin’ With Jen” (cooking);
photography
Volume 4 Issue 3 - “Working Undercover” and “Town Hall Magic” (fiction); “Cookin’ With Jen”
(cooking)
Volume 4 Issue 4 - “Local Color: Camp 18” (travel/non-fiction); “Down the Violet Path:
Further Adventures of Hannah Stevenson” (fiction); “Impotence” (essay); “Cookin’ With Jen”
(cooking)
Volume 5 Issue 1 - “Bittersweet” and “They’re Back!” (essay); “Willamette Writers
Conference” (personal experience/non-fiction); “A Beacon in the Storm; Further Adventures of
Hannah Stevenson” (fiction); “Field Trips: Family Travel Spots” (travel/non-fiction); “Cookin’
With Jen” (cooking)
Volume 5 Issue 2 - “Patty Byers, Cover Artist” (profile); “Wicked on the Wind; Hannah Finds
Her Destiny” (fiction); “Cookin’ With Jen” (cooking)
Volume 5 Issue 3 - "Freedom Has Its Price: Angus the Celt" (fiction); "Years of Wonder at the
Central Little School" (business profile); “Cookin’ With Jen” (cooking)
Volume 5 Issue 4 - "The Hummingbird" (poetry); "Flood Songs: An Angus the Celt Story"
(fiction); “Cookin’ With Jen” (cooking)
Volume 6 Issue 1 - "I Became a Teenage Bride at the Church of Elvis" (non-fiction/personal
experience); "Journeymen - To a New Land: Angus the Celt" (fiction); “Cookin’ With Jen”
(cooking)
Volume 6 Issue 2 - "Remembrances of the Great Depression" (profile/interview); “Cookin’
With Jen” (cooking)
Volume 6 Issue 3 - “Mares. Ya Gotta Love 'Em" (book review); "The Meeting" (poetry); "Love
on the Lost Continent. An Atlantis Mystery" (fiction); “Cookin’ With Jen” (cooking)
Volume 6 Issue 4 - “Groundwaters at Chateau Lorane Fine Art and Wine Festival
(community); "Love On The Lost Continent (Part 2)" (fiction); “Cookin’ With Jen” (cooking);
"Outreach Program to Reach Local Youth" (community)
Volume 7 Issue 1 - "Love On The Lost Continent (Part 3)" (fiction); “Cookin’ With Jen”
(cooking)
Volume 7 Issue 2 - "Miracle in the Mall" and "Love On The Lost Continent (conclusion)"
(fiction); “Cookin’ With Jen” (cooking)
Volume 7 Issue 3 - “Cookin’ With Jen” (cooking)
Volume 7 Issue 4 - “Cookin’ With Jen” (cooking)
Volume 8 Issue 1 - Cover photo "Glow Sunflower"; "Anna; Girl Forced Into the Body of
Queen Elizabeth I" (review of Jen's book); "Full Ride" (fiction); “Cookin’ With Jen” (cooking)
Who Are They?
| ... the inside "scoop" on some of your favorite writers and artists |
| Check out the book review by Vicki Sourdry on Jen's new novel, Learning Life Again! |
