Jan Baumgartner

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Location

Limbo

Birthday

August 02

Company

only if you can make me laugh

Bio

A native Californian, Jan Baumgartner is a writer and book editor dividing her time between Maine, Mexico, and California. Her essays on Mexico are included in the new anthology, Solamente en San Miguel Volume II (Parroquia Press, Nov. 2010), and Lady Jane Miscellany (San Francisco Bay Press, 2009). She is a frequent contributor to Banderas News in Puerto Vallarta, OpEdNews.com, and Scoop New Zealand. Her background includes scriptwriting, comedy writing for the No. California Emmy Awards, and travel writing for The New York Times. She has worked as a grant writer for the non-profit sector in the fields of academia, AIDS, and wildlife conservation for NGO's in the U.S. and Africa. She is working on a memoir about her husband's death from ALS and how travels in Africa became one of her greatest sources of inspiration. "There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." ~Anais Nin. Or on a lighter note: "Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon." ~Woody Allen