Jenny Currier Shand is an internationally published and award-winning food and travel writer.
Jenny spent the majority of her career as a food & beverage columnist for Motif Magazine and contributing food writer for Hey Rhody Media Co in Rhode Island. Through these outlets, Jenny became intricately connected to Rhode Island business owners, entrepreneurs, chefs, and members of local news outlets. Her writing has earned repeated nominations for Rhode Island Press Association Awards – she was named a winner in 2025 – and she was a finalist for the International Association of Culinary Professionals (IACP) Awards in 2020 (category: Food Section of a City Magazine). She’s written multiple cover stories for Rhode Island statewide publications and her food writing has also appeared in the Boston Globe. She is affectionately known as the “loving dictator” of The Providence Writers Guild (leading it from 2017-present) and is the editor of their anthology, Tipplers: A Rhode Island Writers’ Anthology.
Jenny officially went off the Greek deep end in 2015. She put her belongings into storage, quit her job, and bought a one-way ticket to Thasos. Visa complications made it impossible for her stay, and despite marriage proposals (primarily from married men), she returned to the States. In total, however, she’s spent six months living in Greece; she speaks Greek well enough to converse with locals and sing popular Greek songs, and she has more than one Greek tattoo. Jenny is often confused for a local whenever she’s in Greece, and when she’s asked the clarifying question—“Are you Greek?”—she responds with, “Μόνο στη ψυχή μου” (only in my soul).
After a career in dolphin training, Jenny earned a MA in Creative Writing from Dartmouth College and has maintained a Life-and-Travel blog since 2010, before blogging was considered cool. She has visited 26 countries, over half of which were through solo travel, and in 2017 she competed in the Global Scavenger Hunt (think: The Amazing Race but untelevised). She has bungee jumped in New Zealand and ridden a camel to the Pyramids of Egypt, but no destination has impacted her the way Thasos did. She finally settled down and married her dream man, a Greek Orthodox priest (they’re allowed to marry before they become priests), and they have two kids, one of whom has Down Syndrome. Greece will be their first international destination as a family.
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