Janet "Jaize" Brown

Email Janet "Jaize" Brown @jakevbre@msn.com

Janet "Jaize" Brown is a novelist and journalist who graduated with honors, earning a B.A. in journalism and creative writing from Columbia College in Chicago. She's published several short stories (including "Truffles, Anyone?"and "Why Houses Were Built"). She's written news features for The Chicago Defender. She is a native Chicagoan, currently residing on the East Coast.

Janet is a fiesty Leo who is a romantic.

The authors who inspire her are Zora Neale Hurston, Bernice McFadden, Ralph Ellison (whose work she began reading at age 10), Shakespeare, James Baldwin and Stephen King. and a respected professor has favorably compared her to...wait for it...Toni Morrison!

Music is her muse!

She graduated for A.O. SEXTON as the Valedictorian, and she graduated with honors from Lindblom High School.

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