{"id":2415,"date":"2021-01-26T09:40:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-26T16:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/?p=2415"},"modified":"2021-01-28T13:41:47","modified_gmt":"2021-01-28T20:41:47","slug":"creative-writer-passes-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/blog\/2021\/01\/26\/creative-writer-passes-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Creative Writer Passes Away"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Jennifer Simpson, a beloved member of the UNM Creative Writing community, died suddenly in the early hours of December 14<sup>th<\/sup>.&nbsp;&nbsp;She was 56 years old.&nbsp;Jennifer was a talented artist, writer, content strategist, and marketing consultant who believed in the power of stories to change the world.&nbsp;&nbsp;COO &amp; Online Marketing Director of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/plumeforwriters.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Plume, a Writer\u2019s Companion<\/a>, Jennifer was an active community builder in Albuquerque. She is survived by her sister, Debby Simpson, of San Diego.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She attended the Taos Summer Writers\u2019 Conference in 2005.&nbsp; Her participation in the Conference led to her application to the&nbsp;MFA&nbsp;program at UNM.&nbsp;While a student in the&nbsp;MFA&nbsp;program, she served as Managing Editor of&nbsp;<em>Blue Mesa Review<\/em>.&nbsp; Her interest in the literary community also led her to establish a reading series called Dimestories.&nbsp;She graduated with an MFA in 2012.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jennifer worked&nbsp;for many years as a grief counselor for Albuquerque\u2019s Children\u2019s Grief Center. This wonderful organization serves&nbsp;300 families&nbsp;a&nbsp;year, assisting children who have recently lost members of their family and are working through their grieving process. Donations can be made there in her memory.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jennifer Simpson, a beloved member of the UNM Creative Writing community, died suddenly in the early hours of December 14th.&nbsp;&nbsp;She was 56 years old.&nbsp;Jennifer was a talented artist, writer, content strategist, and marketing consultant who believed in the power of stories to change the world.&nbsp;&nbsp;COO &amp; Online Marketing Director of&nbsp;Plume, a Writer\u2019s Companion, Jennifer was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2421,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2415"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2422,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2415\/revisions\/2422"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}