Jan O’Hara thinks it’s hilarious she can write about herself in third person, yet know she will not be branded a loon. (No offence to the ornithologists in the audience; Jan is determinedly NOT birdist.)
Although she knew in grade school she wanted to write fiction, Jan left her dreams behind for a time to become a family physician. She provided birth-to-death healthcare to her patients and served as a clinical preceptor, all while teaching medical students and residents at the University of Alberta.
She came to understand the importance of hope during a time when she had little of her own, still less ability to inspire it in others. That’s why, when made director of a family medicine center, she facilitated its hope-focused transformation — a change which rippled through the local healthcare system. In a good way.
Jan lives in Alberta, Canada with her husband and two children. Once obsessed with helping people professionally, she now spends her days torturing them on paper. See? Win-win scenarios really do exist.
If not at Tartitude, Jan’s probably at Writer Unboxed in her role as their present Voice of the Unpublished Writer. She’s grateful for the privilege, but working on her contemporary romances so that she might become unqualified.
Undoubtedly, those who succeed her at WU will be younger, trimmer, and more eloquent. But then, will they have citrus?
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