Jan has been in the writing and editing field for more than 20 years. For many of those, her career was based on logistics: where her family went, that's where she worked. After earning a BA in English at Clemson University, she worked for her family's handknitting yarn business, designing knitwear, writing newsletters, and traveling extensively throughout the U.S. and Europe. The closure of the business and a yearning to hit the stage brought her to graduate school in acting at University of Georgia. Even though theatre remained (and remains) a passion, love and marriage morphed that pursuit into graduate work in English at Clemson, followed by a few years as a stay-at-home mom in Upstate South Carolina and South Central Pennsylvania. During this time, Jan's writing was largely volunteer: creating her children's school newsletters, fashioning handmade greeting cards, editing friends' letters, and writing the occasional press release for local businesses.
A career move for her husband brought the family to coastal Maine, and Jan soon began working as Community Relations & Marketing Coordinator for the Miles Health Care system in Damariscotta. For eleven years, she wrote articles, created brochures, authored websites, and designed materials on a myriad of health care subjects, until finally figuring out writing and editing skills are portable. Her full-time freelance career was launched.
A career move for her husband brought the family to coastal Maine, and Jan soon began working as Community Relations & Marketing Coordinator for the Miles Health Care system in Damariscotta. For eleven years, she wrote articles, created brochures, authored websites, and designed materials on a myriad of health care subjects, until finally figuring out writing and editing skills are portable. Her full-time freelance career was launched.
Jan's Pen ~ (207) 650-4706 ~ jan@janspen.com
