# 383 Jill G Hall: Shaped by her Past: Creativity Unleashed

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Podcast: [Women Over 70: Aging Reimagined](https://stenobird.com/podcast/women-over-70-aging-reimagined-892091)
Published: 2026-06-02T23:26:58+00:00
Episode link: https://podcast.show/womenaging/episode/153930709/
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Author and artist Jill G. Hall, 71, joins us with her luminous new novel On a Sundown Sea, inspired by the mysteries surrounding the visionary woman who built Lomaland—a utopian community near the home Jill grew up in. Fascinated since childhood by the stories whispered throughout her neighborhood, for more than a century, Hall spent five years researching the extraordinary life of Katherine Tingley, tracing her journey from Massachusetts roots to her profound spiritual and artistic influence on the West Coast. When Jill began writing after a twenty-year career as an educator, she never imagined she would become a novelist. Joining a prompt-writing group, she initially thought she might write children’s books or a memoir about teaching. Instead, unexpected characters began appearing on the page. Jill kept writing, and ten years later, when she was sixty, her debut novel, The Black Velvet Coat, was published. Two more novels completed the Anne McFarland Series with The Silver Shoes and The Green Lace Corset. Jill has always been creative. Along the way, she’d been shaped by a series of mentors: her grandmother, a beloved fifth-grade teacher who nurtured her love of the humanities, and later, poets who helped refine her voice. Beyond writing, she’s also a visual artist whose mixed-media collages and mosaics blend found objects—especially silver trays transformed into wall-hung artworks—with words, tiles, and small artifacts. She studies modern dance, practices yoga, and takes long walks, all of which continue to enrich her life and work. Now working on a collection of her nature-inspired poetry, Jill embraces aging with joy and curiosity. “I feel like I am aging backwards!” - Jill G. Hall Anne McFarland Series: The Black Velvet Coat, The Silver Shoes & The Green Lace…

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