Brief
Brainripples is a creative services provider in writing, editing, research, design, and training. brainripples.com hosts three blog channels featuring projects from the Studio, Forest, and Garden.
Jade Blackwater is a writer and artist from the Pacific Northwest. She creates content for web and print as the owner of Brainripples. Browse the Brainripples portfolio for links to her recent writings about healthy foods, independent grocers, and family-owned businesses in South Seattle neighborhoods. Jade also writes poetry and fiction, and encourages fellow artists to pursue their own, unique voice.
Bio
Jade Leone Blackwater is a Pacific Northwest copywriter-poet who prefers garden mud and forest duff over polite society. She earned her Bachelor of Arts from The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington. After she studied forest ecology and writing with Dr. Nalini Nadkarni, Jade was introduced to book writing as Nadkarni’s sidekick research assistant for BETWEEN EARTH AND SKY: OUR INTIMATE CONNECTIONS TO TREES.
Brainripples is Jade’s creative consultancy, specializing in distinctive copywriting for businesses and individuals. She prefers to distinguish her work by not being a total bore. Clients rely on her abilities as a Universal Idea Translator: capable of rapid information gathering, organization, analysis, and preparation for publication. Jade’s portfolio includes web and print content for businesses in community development, health and nutrition, IT and business consulting, ecology and conservation, and of course—literature and creativity.
Poetry, fiction, and other useless art from Jade’s studio can be found in recent issues of LINE ZERO and THE MONONGAHELA REVIEW, on her blog, and elsewhere on the æther. Jade blogs at brainripples.com with studio, forest, and garden channels (and she encourages everyone to visit treeblogging.com for worldwide discussions about trees and forests). When Jade isn’t writing she’s usually out getting dirty in the garden, or hiking the local forests.
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Jade is a member of the Pacific Northwest Writers Association, Pennwriters, PoetsWest, Seattle WriterGrrls, and Willamette Writers.
