Jane Clark

photo of the author, Jane Clark standing by a tree in the forest: a dark haired, short-haired woman with blue eyes wearing a navy swearer and a pale blue scarf

Jane Hollinger Clark is a retired college teacher of composition, literature, and journalism, who worked for a major northeastern university and a small, private liberal arts college. She was a site director for the National Writing Project in Berkeley, CA, located at PSU, Harrisburg.

Before entering academia, she spent years chasing legislative stories as a journalist for the Associated Press and served as news director for Radio Pennsylvania. Her graduate studies include a Ph.D. in English with a specialty in Narrative Theory and her area of research is women and silence.

She now devotes her time to facilitating writing workshops, working with spiritual companions, helping women to unsilence themselves, traveling, and gardening with her husband, in their home near the Appalachian Forest in Pennsylvania.