 Jan Markley
Jan is a writer living in Calgary. She has published two novels for young readers. Dead Frog on the Porch (Gumboot Books 2009) was her debut novel, and the first in the Megabyte Mystery series. The second in the series is Dead Bird through the Cat Door (Gumboot Books 2010). Both are comedic mystery adventure novels for children aged 8-12 years.
Jan previously worked as a print and broadcast journalist. She writes creative non-fiction and has had humourous personal essays published in the Globe and Mail and West Word (Magazine of the Writers Guild of Alberta).
She has a Master of Arts, Social Science degree in Cultural Anthropology. She did her research at the Peigan First Nation in southern Alberta. Her thesis is entitled: Walking in the Footsteps of our Ancestors: Present Day Representation of Peigan/Blackfoot Cultural Identity, University of Calgary (2002).
Jan enjoys traveling and experiencing other cultures. She has traveled extensively around the world; her latest trip was to India, and she looks forward to returning there someday.
Jan is actively involved in the writers’ community through the Writers Guild of Alberta, Young Alberta Books Society and the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators. She is a big believer in critiquing groups for writers and has been a member of the Kensington Writers’ Group for several years
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