Though Jen Zollner lives in the city (Medicine Hat), she's never far from her farming and amateur rodeo roots. She and her calf/team roping husband raised cattle and wheat on their farm near the Alberta/Saskatchewan border. All her hobbies seem to be about creating whether it be while cooking, sewing, making music or writing poetry.

She loves playing piano but is less than efficient at accompanying with guitar, harmonica and ukulele at cowboy poetry gatherings like Trail's End, where she welcomes the opportunity to share the poems and songs she's written. (“Suds in the Bucket” is the name of her band that entertains at senior homes.) She performed for many years at the Maple Creek Cowboy gathering, in fact it's where her love of cowboy poetry and the urge to write it was ignited. In 2019 she founded the Medicine Hat Cowboy Poetry Foundation. She keeps busy churning out a newsletter and doing research to “feed” the website: MHCowboyLife.com.   She is   instrumental in organizing a three-day annual event the third weekend in October.

To celebrate significant milestones, she makes patchwork memory blankets with Western Wisdom stitched on aida cloth. During Covid she interviewed seniors, wrote poems about their stories and published them in three books. Check their website “MHCowboyLife.com” for videos of them telling their stories.  She is publishing three booklets called “Cowboy Lingo”. She is determined keep the unique genre of Cowboy Poetry alive and enjoys finding creative ways to do so.