About Jan DeGrass

Jan DeGrass writes in Sechelt, British Columbia, where she is the former Arts and Entertainment columnist for the Coast Reporter newspaper and is the editor of Coast Life magazine. She has experience leading writing critique groups and assisting other authors with editing their manuscripts (click here). Her award-winning article, Loving in Leningrad, based on a true experience in the Soviet Union, drew on her university background in Russian language and literature and became the genesis of her novel, Jazz with Ella. A non-fiction book, The Co-op Revolution was published in 2019 by Caitlin Press. Read about it in Latest Projects.    Jan DeGrass- Curriculum Vitae.pdf