Jen Sullivan lives in Lebanon, PA with her husband, her mother, and their pets.  She is an avid video gamer, tech geek, and gardener, and has many side hobbies, including writing, computer repair, genealogy research, and quilting, among others.  She is originally from York, PA, and grew up in the Pleasureville area.

Jen has been interested in pirates and tall ships for most of her life, even though she does not like the ocean and much prefers a forest setting over a beach.  She wrote her first novella, Pirate Ophelia, when recovering from mild PTSD after a prolonged illness and an extremely toxic work situation. She was later treated for Lyme disease, though she never had confirmation of any tick disease, and has had problems with her legs ever since.  In 2022, Jen published Pirate Ophelia: The Real Story on Medium, telling the origins of the book and how it helped her struggle with emotions and nightmares. 

Jen has worked in retail for most of her life and earned an Associate in Arts in Business Management from Harrisburg Area Community College in 2015.  Within six months, she was promoted to manager at her job and later went on to become a store manager for a nationwide craft company. Similar to Pirate Ophelia, she later wrote and published The Fabric Manager: A Memoir of a Craft Store Manager to recover from the stress of that job and to provide insight into the struggles of the chain's retail employees.

More recently, Jen attended Southern New Hampshire University online and completed her Bachelor of Science in Business Administration with a concentration in Human Resources Management. She intends to work in HR and to support employees the best she can while making sure everyone – including upper management – follow labor and EEOC laws.  Jen has always been an employee-focused leader, believing that happy employees provide better customer service and productivity, and this is reflected in the Pirate Ophelia series.