Background
Jennifer Olsson was born on May 20, 1959 in Long Beach, California, United States. She is the daughter of Jack, an attorney, and Barbara (Decker) Miller.
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Jennifer Olsson was born on May 20, 1959 in Long Beach, California, United States. She is the daughter of Jack, an attorney, and Barbara (Decker) Miller.
Olsson graduated from Vassar College with Bachelor of Arts degree in 1981.
Jennifer Olsson makes much of her living as a fly-fishing guide in Bozeman, Montana. Olsson also has lectured on fly-fishing in the country of Sweden. She has put much of her knowledge and experience into writing, contributing to anthologies on the sport including The World’s Best Trout Flies, A Different Angle, and Uncommon Waters.
For two years from 1982 Olsson served as a radio announcer and copywriter for KBOZ, changing her working position to become a salesperson at Computerland in Bozeman, where she remained only for a year. She was an owner of High Country Angler, a fly shop in Bozeman, from 1984 till 1987. In addition, Olsson served as a fly fishing guide, author, speaker from 1985.
Olsson’s first book of her own, Cast Again: Tales of a Fly-Fishing Guide, saw print in 1996. As the title implies, Olsson has filled the volume with stories from her years as a professional fishing guide.
She has appeared also on radio and television shows in the United States and in Sweden, as well as in CD-ROM program Great Rivers of the West and in video Women and Fly Fishing.
Along with her husband, Lars-Åke, she guides fly fishers each summer in Gimdalen, Sweden, and creates books and bison yarns each winter in Bozeman, Montana.
Quotations:
“I write because I want to share. The craft of writing is a challenge that I can’t seem to leave alone. Life as a fly fishing guide has inspired me to write about people and their interactions with each other and with rivers. Because I divide my time between the United States and Scandinavia, the landscapes of Montana and the forest country of Sweden are the settings for my stories. I have been influenced by the writings of western women authors: Mary Clearman Blew, Linda Hasselstrom, Terry Tempest Williams, Pam Houston, Teresa Jordon, Gretel Erlich."
“The mysterious process of writing directs me more than I direct it. While in the midst of a conversation, event, or adventure, a story may present itself and want to be told. Sometimes looking back over certain events I see stories that have been hiding from me for years. Telling them gives me pleasure."
“For the first time in our history, a woman’s voice speaking about her life in the outdoors—as a wife, mother, lover, adventurer—is being heard in record numbers. It is important to me to participate in this effort.”
Olsson is a member of Trout Unlimited, Federation of Fly Fishers and Northwest Outdoor Writers Association.
Olsson married for the first time in 1984, and divorced in 1993. She married again Lars-Ake Olsson, an author and riverkeeper, on January 28, 1995. She has a child from the first marriage - Peter, her stepchildren from the second marriage - Magnus and Frank.
