Janet Burroway

Janet Burroway is the author of eight novels, plays, poetry, essays, texts for dance, and children’s books. She was nominated for the National Book Award in 1977 for her novel Raw Silk. Her Writing Fiction: A Guide to Narrative Craft is the most widely used creative writing text in America, and her multi-genre Imaginative Writing is out in a third edition. Her most recent novel is Bridge of Sand, and her play Medea with Child was produced in 2010 by Sideshow Theatre Company in Chicago. She is at work on a musical adaptation of Barry Unsworth’s novel Morality Play and is the Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor Emerita at Florida State University. Her book for Think Piece Publishing is Losing Tim, a memoir about grieving her son, a private contractor in the Iraq War, who had PTSD and committed suicide. It was released in 2014 and received glowing reviews from around the globe. To watch a video about Janet and Tim, click here.

Janet Burroway has written
  • Losing Tim