About Jane Clark
I’ve always been a storyteller, attuned to the hum of narratives hidden in silences, family histories, and fleeting moments. My work began in journalism, where I learned to follow the thread of truth, and deepened through graduate studies in Narrative Theory and years of teaching writing.
Over time, I became more than a teller of stories — I became a story carrier. I believe we don’t just hold stories; they hold us. They live in our bodies and memories, waiting for the moment they can emerge. My gift is listening for the first heartbeat of a story and helping it take shape.
Today, I walk with women carrying untold tales, offering spaces where silence can turn into structure, and structure into sovereignty. Some call me a writer or teacher; I think of myself as an enchantress of stories, tending to the shimmer of a narrative until it can speak for itself.
This practice led me to write two books, including a memoir about the story carriers in my family and my new writing workbook, Storying Silence: A Writing Workbook to Restore Your Voice and Reclaim Your Sovereignty.
If you’ve been carrying a story, I can help you bring it into the light.
What is a story carrier?
I am a story carrier. That’s different from being a storyteller, because it focuses on the relationship between the story and the person who brings it to life on the page.
Storytellers have a certain kind of giftedness in the way they conjure up and share stories. They may use creative techniques to maintain their listeners’ attention as they roll out compelling, sometimes, supernatural fantasies.
Story carriers are a bit different in that we know we are working at the mercy of tales that reside in the cosmos, waiting to be told through us. A story carrier functions as a conduit for the story and we understand, we are not always in control of the story, nor in the way it wants to be told.
I believe that carrying a story requires unique treatment by you, the writer, and sets unusual, exciting expectations for your audience. As a story carrier, you must believe in its magical power to function like a spell or incantation, casting new ideas, posing questions, creating new worlds that make the reader want to traipse across the pages and enter the tale.
You must believe that stories move under their own power, flying across time and space, standing at the threshold of the ecotone, poised to cross with or without your assistance. You must understand that the story will wait for no one and will operate under its own rules of movement.
You’ll know when you are carrying a story, rather than telling one, because it will evoke a visceral response. A headache, a thud-thud-thudding in your heart, a deep sense of feeling.
Join the Story Carrier Movement
The Story Carrier Movement helps you collect and honor the stories we all carry.
The stories that have been passed down in our family DNA, lodged deep in our bones and held in the dark mystery of our souls.
These stories may be bits and pieces we have carried secretly.
They may be story fragments shared as gossip about an ancestor.
Or, they may include family tales we have never been told, but which have existed in an unformed nebulous state, waiting to be discovered and brought to life through language.
Stories connect us to one another and to the universe.
Stories are an animating entity and even though we may not be aware of their presence, nor of their power, they exist like phantom beings who direct our actions and influence our values and beliefs, I've discovered through years of research and personal experience.
The Story Carrier Movement focuses on the process of birthing stories and development of skills for inviting stories to appear and unfold in our lives.
My mission is to walk alongside you to help you make stories visible in your life.
Ready to discover the stories that have been waiting for you?
Books
Storying Silence
A Writing Workbook to Restore Your Voice & Reclaim Your Sovereignty
For the woman who has been everything to everyone—except herself.
You’ve held families together. You’ve swallowed words to keep the peace. You’ve quieted your own needs for years. And still, the world calls you “too sensitive,” “too emotional,” or “too much.”
This workbook is a reclamation. A space to unravel. A place to be loud on the page when life demands you be quiet in person.
Written by a woman walking her own path through silence, self-erasure, and the slow work of being seen, this is not another workbook that demands transformation. This is a workbook that honors where you are. That trusts your truth. That invites you back to your voice by writing stories that give shape to the experiences you’ve been suffering in silence.
Through guided prompts, compassionate reflections, and deeply resonant questions, you’ll confront the ways you’ve been made small and begin to take up space—on the page, in your relationships, and in your own damn life.
Because you don’t need to be “fixed.”
You need to be heard.
Book Release: September 15, 2025
Story Carrier
A Collection of Tales of the Disappeared
A writer returns to the West Texas desert in search of a story to explain early childhood losses, including a sister’s death, father’s disappearance, and an overnight move. Juggling a career as a writer, professor, and spiritual director, she returns to face the land where high winds haunted her early life, hunting for the story that will mend a fractured relationship with her mother and help her come to terms with a lifelong pattern of abandonment. Blending ancestral storytelling with mystery, this is a memoir that will inspire the reader to believe in the power of story to transform the storyteller into a story carrier, where the magic of healing can begin.
Buy the Book Locally:
Midtown Scholar in store only (Harrisburg, PA)
Pocket Books online and in store (Lancaster, PA)
Nowhere Bookshop online and in store (San Antonio, TX)
Buy on Amazon: print/Kindle
