Jana Harris teaches creative writing at the University of Washington and at the Writer’s Workshop in Seattle. She is editor and founder of Switched-on Gutenberg. Her most recent publications are You Haven’t Asked About My Wedding or What I Wore, Poems of Courtship on the American Frontier (University of Alaska Press), and the memoir Horses Never Lie About Love (Simon & Schuster). Other poetry books include Oh How Can I Keep on Singing, Voices of Pioneer Women (Ontario), The Dust of Everyday Life, An Epic Poem of the Northwest (Sasquatch), and We Never Speak of It, Idaho-Wyoming Poems 1889-90 (Ontario). All are available online from Open Road Press, as are her two novels, Alaska (Harper & Row) and The Pearl of Ruby City (St. Martin’s). She lives with her husband on a farm in the Cascades.

Jana Harris's work featured in Stand Magazine comprises one contribution of poetry.