Born under a crescent moon in Oakland, California, Jenny Selig grew up in Iowa and Kansas, where she studied poetry, theatre, and gender studies. An NYC-area resident since 2001, she now lives in Brooklyn with her husband (artist Dan Funderburgh) and three young and lovable rascals (two of whom are cats).

Jenny began playing ukulele in 2017 and quickly became creatively obsessed, collaborating with YouTube ukulele sensation Cynthia Lin to start the NYC Uke Squad and to help lead the annual 100 Days of Ukulele project (now in its 8th year). She started writing songs in 2018 and shares ukulele originals and covers, workshops and lessons in person and on Instagram, YouTube, and Patreon under the name @newukenewyork. Jenny discovered FAWM (February Album Writing Month) in 2023 and fell in love with that community and with FILK music as a genre. Her lyrical style is infused with a unique blend of “Midwest Nice” and memento mori.

After working in bookstores for several years, Jenny was lucky enough to stumble into a “day job” career in audiobooks. In this field, she is an occasional narrator but more frequent director, engineer, and editor. While most often found with ukulele or songwriting notebook (or both!) in hand, Jenny also loves to act, knit, read, bake, drink tea, and devour films and television shows (among other things, she is a passionate Twin Peaks devotee). She eats a lot of chocolate and a lot of cheese (but rarely together). Seen online at several Festival(s) of the Living Rooms and FilkOntario 2023, she was thrilled and honored to be invited to OVFF, which will be her very first in-person FILK festival.

She has too many plants.