CMW Community

Entering the Wild: Essays on Faith and Writing, Jean Janzen's memoir, is now available through Good Books. Janzen writes extensively about her childhood years, her married life in California, and her long journey with writing.

Read about it here: http://www.goodbooks.com/book-display.php?isbn=1561487570

From Author's Bio:
Jean Janzen has authored six collections of poetry, the most recent of which isPaper House(Good Books 2008) and a book of essays,Elements of Faithful Writing, based on the Menno Simons lectures given at Bethel College, KS in 2003. Her poems have appeared inPoetry,Image,The Gettysburg Review,Prairie Schooner,The Christian Century, and other places, and have been included in numerous anthologies. Among other prizes she won an NEA grant and has been twice nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Some of her poems have been set to music, including the oratorio "That Sturdy Vine" by Alice Parker. Jean lives in Fresno, California, where she taught poetry writing at Fresno Pacific University. She received an M.A. from Fresno Pacific and California State University of Fresno where she studied poetry with Philip Levine and Peter Everwine. She also taught poetry at Eastern Mennonite University in Virginia. Jean has lived in the San Joaquin Valley since 1961 where her husband Louis began a pediatric practice. They four children, six grandchildren, and attend the College Community Church Mennonite Brethren in Fresno. She was born in Saskatchewan, Canada, and lived most of her childhood in Minnesota and Kansas.