Jane Barnard

Jane Barnard is a Madison, Wisconsin writer as well as a visual artist/teacher. Jane has a Master’s Degree in English. Her publications include The Bitter Oleander Press (translation of French Surrealist poet Benjamin Peret), the Driftless Writers Anthology, and others. She’ll read from her hybrid memoir-in-progress, working title Days, Numbered: Or, the Poet as Pain Relief. Jane’s work reflects her long love affair with writers and writing. She imagines a reader both erudite and tender, a reader who enjoys irreverent wit and riffs on language and who’s also moved by a journey of surviving depression and addiction with hard-won grace.