About Jacqui Lents, Storyteller
Jacqui Lents was born and raised in her beloved Michigan. As an unofficial promoter of her home, her debut novel – Better Late Than Never, takes place in the Great Lakes State. Her life resembles more a meandering stream than a straight rushing river. By the time she settled on a career as a high school social studies teacher, she’d already tried her hand at least fifteen different jobs. Highlights include working temporarily for the short-lived American football team in Scotland, as a leasing consultant for an apartment complex, a night receptionist at her dorm at Michigan State University, and pushing a mop as a janitor. These experiences taught her that no job is unworthy if done with dignity and effort.
A few years after winning the award for Outstanding Teacher of the Year from her high school the time had come for another bend in the stream. Leaving life dictated by the bell, a surge of creativity bloomed. Her debut novel worked its way into existence. She quickly followed this with her Award-winning podcast Jacqui Just Chatters, and her second manuscript – The Daphne Project.
When she is not brimming with her next great idea, you can find her overlooking her wee loch (water is her happy place) reading a feel-good fiction novel or a cozy murder mystery. She and her husband often indulge in watching a murder mystery on TV, trying to solve the who-dun-it. Usually, her husband plays Watson to her Sherlock. Jacqui even dabbled in devising several murder mystery dinner party games for her friends and family. You can check out her podcast serial murder, done through letters, in the episode To Silence a Scandalmonger.
Grateful that the world is available to visitors again, Jacqui is ramping up her favorite hobby, travel. Bitten by the travel bug early, she and her sister spent a summer living and working in Scotland, during their carefree days at university. Since that adventure, she has walked through a sequoia tree, over the Mackinac Bridge, along the red sand shores of Prince Edward Island, through the geological wonder that is Yellowstone Park, and under the Eiffel Tower to name a few. Throughout her many experiences, Jacqui has learned that the world and its people are full of unending wonder.
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