JEN SHOOP
Jen Shoop is the founder and author of this blog. She holds an advanced degree in literature from Georgetown University and has enjoyed a varied career in non-profit management, technology, and product design. She considers writing her vocation. Jen is an adoring wife to her husband, Landon (styled as Mr. Magpie on this blog), and a loving mother to two young children. She resides in Bethesda, Maryland.
Her debut book, Small Wonders: A Field Guide to Life's Quiet Joys, will be released on April 14, 2026, with publishing house Quarto. Small Wonders is a collection of musings, meditations, and list poetry about the art of noticing.
Her debut book, Small Wonders: A Field Guide to Life's Quiet Joys, will be released on April 14, 2026, with publishing house Quarto. Small Wonders is a collection of musings, meditations, and list poetry about the art of noticing.
MAGPIE BY JEN SHOOP
Magpie by Jen Shoop (formerly known as TheFashionMagpie) is a daily lifestyle blog. We exist to inspire and politely provoke women to live thoughtful, well-curated, stylish lives. We lean into the vision that “a woman contains multitudes”: we can be intellectual, style-conscious, highbrow, lowbrow, ambitious, exhausted (and, and, and – !) all at the same time. Ultimately, we aspire to invite self-discovery and encourage women to see their entire selves.
Magpie covers a wide range of lifestyle topics, including serious essays on grief, motherhood, and literature, while also providing fashion and product recommendations. This is a masthead that goes to the hard places – death, gender norms, mom guilt – but also confesses an obsession with fashion.
A woman can be all of those things and is often all of those things at once.
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Magpie covers a wide range of lifestyle topics, including serious essays on grief, motherhood, and literature, while also providing fashion and product recommendations. This is a masthead that goes to the hard places – death, gender norms, mom guilt – but also confesses an obsession with fashion.
A woman can be all of those things and is often all of those things at once.
