"...Coming back to Michigan, I feel another magnetic pull: to the
Midwest’s old hillocks and cantankerous fronts and weedy swamps.
Coming back into my watershed, I whisper familiar words of flora and
fauna: milkweed, dandelion, cattail, oak. Cardinal, goldfinch,
grackle, crow." Click on "Essays" to read more...
Welcome to the website of Jan Worth – novelist, poet, essayist, short story writer, teacher and Flint River canoeist.
Click on Events for past appearances, with photos!
::: NEWS UPDATES :::
Read Jan's latest East Village Magazine essay about "drubbling" river kayaker Riley McLincha by clicking here.
Six Minutes in New York:
Jan Speaks Out on Peace Corps Tonga, Night Blind, and Indie Publishing.
Night Blind: Top Ten Finalist in Literary Fiction, ForeWord Magazine "Book of the Year" Awards for 2006 books from independent and small presses.
Night Blind is the saga of a ragtag bunch of Peace Corps volunteers grappling with a murder in the remote and eccentric Kingdom of Tonga. For more, click here...
Night Blind is available now at Barnes and Noble Booksellers in Flint (Genesee Valley Mall) and Torrance (Del Amo Mall).
