Vought, Janna
Birth Year (-Died Year):
1973
Birth City:
Colorado Springs
Birth State:
CO
Current Location:
Peyton, CO
Author's Website:
Occupation(s):
Writer
Biography:
Janna Vought is a poet, nonfiction, and fiction writer with more than 50 pieces published in various magazines and literary journals. She graduated from American Public University with a Bachelor's Degree in English and from Lindenwood University with an MFA in Creative Writing. She is an Association of Writing Professionals Intro Journals Project in Poetry nominee for 2013.
Janna lives in Peyton, Colorado, is married and the mother of two daughters, the eldest of whom suffers from chronic mental and developmental illness.
Published Works:
"Bugs", "Games" (The Eagle Literary Magazine, 2012)
"Forgotten" (Imperfect Parent, 2012)
"Marbled Rose" (Tough Lit V, 2012)
"Dark Water" (Tough Lit VI, 2012)
"Paper Thin" (Tough Lit VII, 2012)
"Drowning" (Tough Lit IX, 2013)
"A Rendering" (Tough Lit X, 2013)
"Room 402", "Farewell Mon Amie", "A Writer's Recipe for Inclusion", "City of the Damned", "Still Life Reflected", "Little Girl", "We Bury Our Dead" (The Rusty Nail, 2013)
"Moment of Snow and Pain" (Essays for Hope: The Mommy Life Volume, 2012)
"Pieces Missing", "All that Remains", "The Illiterate Scholar", "Beauty in Darkness" (Linden Avenue Literary Review, 2013)
"Ivory Bones in My Closet" (Epiphany Magazine, 2013)
"Underneath the Apple Tree", "Knots Unwind", "For Kamryn", "Timekeeper", "Night Terrors", "Girl Missing", "Changeling", "Lady's Manifesto" (Circa Literary Review, 2013)
"White T-Shirt" (Spry Literary Journal, 2013)
"Tuesday Evening Survivor's Group" (The Survivor Anthology, 2013)
"Evolution of Cocoons", "High Seas", "Flipping the Switch", "A Bit of Hope" (Familiuis Publishing, 2013)
"Along the Ecliptic" (The Voices Project, 2013)
"Split in Two" (Literary Mama, 2013)
Welcome to the Dollhouse (A Full Length Poetry Collection)(Seeler Press, 2013)
Wicker Girl (A Full Length Poetry Collection)(Virgo Books, 2014)
"Fragments of my Rape", "Stained", "Aftershocks", "Drowning" (Lascaux Review, 2014)
"Wicker Girl" (The Rain, Party, and Disaster Society, 2014)
"Miss Lila Deeds" (Lime Hawk Literary Arts Collective, 2014)
The Motherhood Conspiracy (A Full Length Poetry Collection)(Virgo Books, 2014)
Awards/Honors:
AWP Intro Journals Project Nominee for poetry, 2013
"Moments of Snow" - nonfiction piece listed in Houghton Mifflin's Best American Essays 2013.
Education/Training:
Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing, Lindenwood University - Bachelor of Arts in English, American Public University
Organizations:
Pikes Peak Writers
Speaker Availability:
Yes
Speaker Topics:
Creative writing - Poetry - Women's Issues - Victimization - Writing workshops
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