Jan Worth-Nelson

Jan Worth-Nelson thinks that writing helps offer proof that she exists. So for decades she has been delivering poems, essays, short stories, and the novel Night Blind to the world, writing about her life experiences as a preacher’s daughter, a newspaper reporter, Peace Corps volunteer, social worker, and longtime writing teacher at the University of Michigan – Flint. She spent years as a columnist for Flint’s venerable East Village Magazine before becoming editor from 2015 to 2020. Her work has appeared in Belt Magazine, Exposition Review, Gravel, Hypertext Magazine, The MacGuffin, Midwestern Gothic, Nice Cage, the Flint Anthology “Happy Anyway”, and others.

A resident of Flint since 1981, she and her second husband Ted live in an old neighborhood in a house surrounded by great neighbors and a multitude of birds, all watched over by a number of Buddhas.