Mother of my Invention, 2021 Memoir Contest Winner
Our memoir contest winner from last year, Janice Airhart, named her memoir Mother of my Invention. Janice takes seriously what her father once told her: “You can be anything you want to be.” As a result, she’s been a medical technologist, biomedical research tech, freelance writer and editor, science teacher to pregnant teens, bioscience program representative, and adjunct English professor. She now devotes her time to her first passion, writing that makes a difference, particularly in the lives of children and youth.
Her essays and articles have appeared in The Sun, The Science Teacher, Lutheran Woman Today, Story Circle Network’s Real Women Write 2019 and 2021 anthologies, and One Woman’s Day blog. Her essay, “Migration” about the plight of displaced Afghan women and girls will appear in the Spring, 2022 issue of the Concho River Review.
Preorder her memoir here! Available November 2022.
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