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Books
Wilson's first book, Running Away to Home, received Best Nonfiction Book of 2012 from the American Society of Journalists and Authors (a peer award) and the 2012 Iowa Emerging Author Award.
In 2016, Midwest iconoclast Raygun released a limited publication of Jennifer Wilson's environmental novel Water. In 2023, Water was chosen for the CCI first-ever book club pick.
In 2015, Wilson contributed to the National Geographic book Journeys Home, edited by Andrew McCarthy.
In 2020, her short story "Them Boys" won Honorable Mention in the final issue of Glimmer Train.
Teaching
Jennifer Wilson teaches magazine, brand, and multimedia at the School of Journalism & Mass Communication at Drake University, a Hearst-award winning writing program. Wilson advises student publications and directs the E.T. Meredith Center for Magazine and Multimedia Education.
MFA in writing, Bennington Writing Seminars, 2019
Journalism
Jennifer Wilson has been a rock writer, investigative reporter, high school English teacher, Big Band radio DJ, storyteller for The Moth, and both a local newspaper and national magazine editor. Her work has appeared in Esquire, National Geographic, Gourmet, NPR’s All Things Considered, Chicago Tribune, Better Homes & Gardens, No Depression, Travel with Rick Steves (Lowell Thomas Gold), and others.