Jana Laiz

Jana Laiz is the author of the triple award-winning novel, Weeping Under This Same Moon, Moonbeam Silver Medal Winner and ForeWord Reviews Book Of The Year Award nominee, The Twelfth Stone, Elephants of the Tsunami, written to raise money for tsunami relief, the co-author of "A Free Woman On God's Earth, The True Story of Elizabeth "Mumbet" Freeman, The Slave Who Won Her Freedom" optioned to be a feature film, Thomas & Autumn and Simon Says ~ Tails Told By The Red Lion Inn Ambassador. Jana has been invited to speak about writing all over the world, and recently spent time in Lima, Peru as Author-in-Residence at an International School. She was on staff at the San Miguel Writers’ Conference. She is an editor and publisher at Crow Flies Press, and co-publisher at Green Fire Press. She is passionate about our beautiful planet and endeavors to make a difference in the world through her writing and to work with others who feel the same. She is the very first Writer-In-Residence at Herman Melville's beloved Arrowhead and has just put the finishing touches on a juvenile biography of Herman Melville. Jana is currently working on a new novel about the immigrant experience, as well as the sequel to The Twelfth Stone. Her short story, Magnolia Justice has been accepted to be adapted into a play to be performed at local high schools. She lives in a 205-year-old farmhouse in the Berkshire Hills of Massachusetts with her two kids, two dogs and two cats.