Janine Canan

JANINE CANAN was born in Los Angeles and today lives in Sonoma. She attended Stanford cum laude, University of California at Berkeley and New York University School of Medicine, and for over thirty years has been a practicing psychiatrist. Her first book of poems received a National Endowment from the Arts grant. Since then, she has published 18 books of poetry, translations, anthologies, essays and stories. She translated the poets Else Lasker-Schüler and Francis Jammes, and edited award-winning anthologies of the teachings of Indian humanitarian Amma, and contemporary American Goddess poetry. Her work appears in anthologies by Andrei Codrescu, Andrew Harvey, James Laughlin, June Cotner and many others; and has been featured by American Booksellers, City Lights, Small Press Review, and Spirituality & Health. Visit JanineCanan.com for more information.