PROFESSIONAL WRITER
Jenie Skoy is a journalist and teller of tales.
She was a regular contributor to the U.S. lifestyle magazine Sunset, and her work has been published in Medium, Paste.com, Mapquest, AOL Travel, USA Today, Fodor’s Travel Guides, Digital IQ and Dining Out, among many others. She’s the former founder of Foodlore Library, a website which collected food stories from around the world. She worked as the editor of several magazines: DASH, Utah Business, Digital iQ and the international gardening magazine, Growing Edge.
VIEW her photo essays here.
MEMOIR
Poetry in the Beams- Growing up in the poetic homes my father built.
Restoration- Essay about my love affair with the Oregon Coast
This is How Poetry is Made- Teaching poetry in a broken town in rural Oregon.
Gift of Fish- Childhood memories of fishing at Idaho’s Warm Springs and learning to fly-fish.
Black Tipped Shark & Lesser-Known Gurus of the Bahamas- Off-the grid spots in the Bahamas
FEATURE PROFILES:
Garden of Memories- Willamette Woman, Fall 2012 — Profile on gardener Lorrie Sutherland in Willamette Woman, Salem, Oregon
Wholesome Life on a Farm: Sophie Bello, co-owner of Groundwork Organics- DASH, Women’s publication in the Register Guard
Ladies Lunch Bunch- Eugene lunch group shares meal and memories- Register Guard
The Shyest Swashbuckler: Illustrator Brent Helquist
He opens up Roger, the Jolly Pirate and points to a grizzled pirate. “I would be that guy right there,” he says, pointing to a Stallone–like pirate flexing his tattooed bicep while picking something out of his front tooth with a fish knife. “I just love that guy; he’s a good pirate.”
Mother Reynold’s Legacy of Love — Oregon Civil Rights Leader, Mattie Reynolds- Register Guard
Sky High in a Giant’s Arms- Founder of Pacific Tree Climbing Institute, Teresa Dameron- Register Guard
The Harvest is Inn- B&B Owner Kent Perry- Utah Business
Design Sense and Sensibility- Kathryn Litchfield, Architect
Master of the Revels: Fred Adams, Founder of Utah Shakespearean Festival
A Most Discerning Grocer- Steven Rosenberg, Owner of Liberty Heights Fresh
Falling into Black Holes — Black Hole Physicist, Lior Burko
Neils Thueson, St. Anthony, Idaho- Standard Journal
The “Can-do Mayor”: Rich Woodland, Mayor of Rexburg, Idaho- Standard Journal
Ann Millner: Utah’s First Female University President
12-Fret Love: Shelley James, Musician
Her fingers casually stroll over its SP phosphorous bronze light strings, and her dusky voice lets out a Robbie Robertson tune about a broken arrow and a bottle of rain.
BUSINESS & HIGH TECH
Trouble Under Canopy -Executive Change Leads to Turmoil at Investment Company — Digital iQ magazine
Putting Water into the Hands of Africa- Entrepreneur helping solve the clean water crisis in Sub-Saharan Africa
Zinch and Orange Soda- Social Media Start-ups- Utah Business
The Next Tech Revolution: A Nanometer away- Utah companies pioneering nanotechnology- Digital iQ
FICTION
Landscape of a Couple by the River Stour (published in Feast Magazine).
TRAVEL & FOOD
New Miami restaurants- Dining Out
New Toronto Restaurants — Dining Out
The food is simple and undressed: charred octopus salad with pungent Spanish olives topped with the zing of blood-orange dressing. Beef slow-steeped in rosemary, garlic olive oil, shaved thin and served with fennel milk salad.
PASTE Magazine
Sundance — Eat, Drink & Do Festival Combos- January, 2016
Whale Watching in New England- August, 2015
MAPQUEST
The ‘Wild’-Inspired Tour of the Pacific Crest Trail — Dec. 2014
Talk Like a Pirate Day Founder John Baur (Ol’ Chumbucket) Shares His Favorite Buccaneer Hot Spots -Sept. 2014
Author Lois Lowry Talks about ‘The Giver,_ Memories’ Influence and Travel to Maine — July 2014
National Ice Cream Day_ 5 Places in the West Where the Architecture is More than Just a Cherry on Top — July 20, 2014AOL Travel
‘Portlandia’_ A Tour of Portland, Oregon that Knows Where its Chicken Comes From — AOL Travel Ideas — May 2014
Letters to Our Younger Selves- Dear Jenie — Oct. 2013
There’s a town on the eastern coast of Tanzania called Pangani, which in Swahili means “heaven winds.” The ocean is bathwater warm, and the wind smells like honey. You’ll sit in a wooden boat beside a village chief while he unfurls an ivory sail. Using a rusty nail as a weight, squid as bait and no fishing rod, just a handful of line, you’ll pull in one golden fish after another. They turn pink when they’re out of water. You’ll fill the boat, then fry one up, whole, and eat it for dinner.
Sunset Magazine (for more, see archives): Weekend Escape- White Salmon, WA- Nov. 2012
Go with the Flow — Fly-fishing on the Provo River, Weekend Escape Trip — Oct. 2009
Shop Green in Salt Lake City’s Sugar House-
Watch for the Return of Whales- Places to Welcome Spring
