Jennifer Silva Redmond, Substack Indie Author
Jennifer Silva Redmond is an editor, writer, and lifelong champion of literary community whose work bridges the worlds of publishing, personal narrative, and life at sea. She is the author of Honeymoon at Sea: How I Found Myself Living on a Small Boat (re:books, 2023), a reflective and richly observed memoir about marriage, reinvention, and the unexpected freedom of living afloat. She writes the Substack newsletter Editor on Board, where she explores creativity, author-editor relationships, and life beyond the shoreline.
Jennifer’s editorial career spans decades. She is Editor-at-Large at Sunbelt Publications, an award-winning independent press based in San Diego, where she previously served as Editor-in-Chief. Over the years, she has edited and shepherded books by acclaimed authors including Jasmin Iolani Hakes, Judy Reeves, Daniel Reveles, Gayle Carline, and Eric Peterson, earning a reputation for editorial rigour paired with deep respect for a writer’s voice.
Her essays and short fiction have appeared in Science of Mind, Latinos in Lotusland, and A Year in Ink (volumes 11 and 12). She was prose editor for A Year in Ink, volume 3, and co-founded the critically acclaimed Sea of Cortez Review, which published from 1998 to 2001.
Jennifer is on staff at the Southern California Writers’ Conference and San Diego Writers, Ink, where she continues to mentor and support writers at all stages of their careers. She lives aboard a sailboat with artist, writer, and teacher Russel Redmond, somewhere along the west coast of North America—proof that a creative life need not stay anchored.
