About

Some of Jonna’s earliest memories take place in a canvas tent on her parents’ Alaskan homestead. While her mother and father worked through the end of summer to complete building a house, the family – parents, children, cats and dogs, resided in that tent.

The books that traveled everywhere the peripatetic family ventured, coupled with vivid late night stories around the wood stove at the tent’s center, meshed with the cold air and dense forest to create memories saturated with brilliant color and intriguing details.

As an author illustrator of her first published book (a children’s story) Nutshell Regatta, Jonna likes to upend the Pandora Box of memory. Deep diving into childhood and her early days growing up in the wilderness fuels not only children’s tales, but poetry and manuscripts for older readers as well.

Born to adventurers who also happened to be avid storytellers insured a life-long bond with books and the magical power of words.

Now living and writing in the Pacific Northwest, Jonna finds no end to the possibilities inherent in the epic of everyday.