JE Thompson, author of I still carry you around, is a born-and-bred New Yorker. She grew up in northern New York just 12 miles from the Quebec border. A week after college graduation, she bolted to New York City for a career in journalism (with just $500 to her name). She put in a few good years in the publishing industry before transitioning to advertising, where she has worked at top advertising agencies with Fortune 100 clients like UPS, USPS, SAP, IBM, and many other acronym-adjacent companies.
She's been a barmaid in London, a Corn Dog Factory manager, nursing home aide, legal proofreader, associate editor, freelance tech reporter, copywriter, content strategist and creative director — to name just a few of her roles.
JE Thompson left New York in 2016, but is still in the ad business. She also runs writing workshops (www.wordswillflow.com). She's an Amherst Writers & Artists affiliate, certified to lead workshops in the AWA method, as described in "Writing Alone & With Others" by Pat Schneider, Oxford University Press.
To this day she keeps a close eye on the NYC real estate market. New York has not seen the last of her.