Jennifer Schelter is a writer, interdisciplinary artist, and teacher whose work is rooted in the body, nature, storytelling, and paying attention. She works across memoir, performance, watercolor, yoga, and contemplative practice.

She has written and produced four one-woman shows, including Love Lessons from Abu Ghraib, produced by Amnesty International, and shared a Tony Award at the Denver Center Theatre Company. Her watercolors have been exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.

Jennifer teaches memoir writing, mindfulness, and creative practice at the University of Pennsylvania, Wharton, Morris Arboretum, and Maine Media Workshops and College. Her teaching invites students to slow down, notice, reflect, and find the story through the senses, body, and surprising details in the ordinary.

She founded the curriculum for Philadelphia’s largest civic yoga fundraiser for breast cancer awareness and convenes the annual Radiant Retreat in Mexico. She is a recipient of the Living Beyond Breast Cancer Community Award for Taking It Off the Mat and a multiple Best of Philly honoree.

Her memoir, Some Beauty, is currently seeking publication.

Sections of the book have been presented by Live Radio Arts, Maine Media and published in Dorothy Parker’s Ashes.

Jennifer lives outside Philadelphia in a converted stable with her beloved cats and garden. She is interested in what’s possible when we embrace our creativity as a way of being.

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“The books stacked on either side of my couch are: Asian art, Buddhism, memoirs, poetry, meditation, spirituality, craft books on writing, the creative process, visual art, watercolor sketchbooks, cat, bird, and wild flower books. I’m obsessed with flowers, nature and lists of things to remember, write about or draw.”