Janine Canan

In Sonoma, California, award-winning author and psychiatrist Janine Canan devotes herself to patients, poems, plants and prayers. Her books include Journeys with Justine; Goddesses, Goddesses: Essays by Janine Canan; Walk Now in Beauty: The Legend of Changing Woman; and ten books of poetry including Changing Woman and In the Palace of Creation. Canan also edited Messages from Amma: In the Language of the Heart and She Rises like the Sun: Invocations of the Goddess by Contemporary American Women Poets. She has translated the German-Jewish poet Else Lasker-Schüler (Star in My Forehead) and the French poet Francis Jammes (Under the Azure). Janine graduated from Stanford cum laude and New York University School of Medicine. For further information, visit JanineCanan.com.