Janice Harayda is the founder and editor-in-chief of One-Minute Book Reviews. An award-winning journalist, she is also the author of the comedies of manners The Accidental Bride (St. Martin’s, 1999) and Manhattan on the Rocks (Sourcebooks, 2004). She has been the book columnist for Glamour, book editor and critic for The (Cleveland) Plain Dealer, and vice-president for awards of the National Book Critics Circle.
Jan received a B.A. degree from the University of New Hampshire, where she studied writing with Pulitzer Prize-winner Donald Murray and National Book Award-winner Thomas Williams. She has taught as an adjunct at major universities and speaks frequently to college classes, writers’ conferences, book clubs, library groups and professional organizations. You can learn about her speeches, and find a list of sample topics, by clicking on the “My Speeches ” page on www.janiceharayda.com.
In early 2009, Jan was the writer-in-residence at the Fairhope Center for the Writing Arts in Fairhope, Alabama, and she welcomes inquiries about serving as a writer-in-residence with other programs and about speaking on panels and at writers’ conferences. She has also appeared extensively on radio and television and would love to do book reviews or commentaries for NPR. She was named one of “25 Women Bloggers to Watch in 2008″ by the site Virtual Woman’s Day virtualwomansday.blogspot.com/2008/01/women-bloggers-to-watch-in-2008.html.
You can also follow her on Twitter www.twitter.com/janiceharayda.
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