A poet, novelist, short-story writer, and essayist,
Jana Harris has been a Washington State Governor’s Writers Award winner and a PEN West Center Award finalist. Born in San Francisco and raised in the Pacific Northwest, she worked for six years as the director of Writers in Performance at the Manhattan Theatre Club in New York. She now lives with her husband in the foothills of the Cascade Mountains, where they raise horses. She studies the riding discipline of dressage and competes.
Ms. Harris teaches creative writing at the University
of Washington. She is the editor and founder of
Switched-on
Gutenberg, one of the first electronic poetry journals in the
English-speaking world. Her seventh book of poems,The Dust of Everyday Life: An Epic Poem of the Pacific Northwest
, an epic concerning the lives of
forgotten Northwest pioneers (Sasquatch), won the 1998 Andres Berger
Award; she was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for Manhattan As a Second Language. Her poetry book Oh How Can I Keep On Singing?: Voices of Pioneer Women
Join Jana for a book signing of Horses Never Lie about Love
at the Woodinville, Washington Costco, Saturday April 21, 2012, noon-2pm.
CowgirlDiary.com - "you will love this book because it has the ease of fiction without the fairytale fluff"
Equestrian Stylist - "the first book that I am dying to tell you about"
Just One More Paragraph - "...how amazing this book is"
Horse Paintings Blog - "from page 1 my attention was vited to Jana Harris' well-written story".
Bookviews by Alan Caruba - " heartwarming story of the bonds between those who love horses and the horses who love them back".
Book Club Classics Sunday Salon - " Harris’s memoir is a compelling tale of dedication, courage, and faith."
All Things Good and More - "You needn’t be an animal lover to be touched and inspired by Jana Harris’s memoir"