Janice Northerns

Janice Northerns is the author of Some Electric Hum (Lamar University Literary Press, 2020). Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in many journals, including Ploughshares, The Laurel Review, descant, The Chariton Review, and Southwestern American Literature. Awards include a Brush Creek Foundation for the Arts residency, a Sewanee Writers’ Conference scholarship, second place in Southwest Review’s 2017 Marr Poetry Contest, and the Robert S. Newton Creative Writing Award from Texas Tech University. Northerns grew up on a farm in rural West Texas and holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Texas Tech University. After teaching for many years at the college and high school levels, she retired last year and now enjoys writing full time.