Janice Wilson Stridick

Janice Wilson Stridick is a New Jersey native who lived for ten years on the West Coast. Her unfinished novel about living on the shore of Lake Tahoe from 1975 to 1980 was selected for the flash fiction anthology "Tahoe Blues" published by Bona Fide Books. Her full-length poetry manuscript, "Unfinished Daughter," is out and about, seeking a publisher. After years of cataloging and curating her late mother's work, she published "Alice Steer Wilson: LIGHT, PARTICULARLY" on Alice's 87th birthday, November 8, 2013.

Stridick's poetry and essays have been widely published in literary magazines, and her poem "Explaining the Urn on the Dining Room Cabinet" was nominated by the Coachella Review for a 2013 Pushcart Prize. Another poem, "Homecoming" won the 2012 Lois Cranston Prize from Calyx Press. She claimed that she couldn't finish any of her own long-form projects until she completed the book about her mother's art. Upon signing off on the last proof in May 2013, she realized she had just begun the process of marketing. Hence this "Author's Page."

Stridick reads voraciously when she can find a place to sit amongst all the waiting-to-be-read books in her home. Her rescued cat, Scout, is her most constant listener and seems not to mind hearing poetry and prose read aloud, endlessly. Stridick writes from the third floor of a Queen Anne Victorian, which she and her husband, the delightful and funny architect Paul Stridick, restored. www.janicewilsonstridick.com