2016 Alumna
Cottage: Willow
BIO: Janine Kovac is the author of Spinning: Choreography for Coming Home and The Nutcracker Chronicles: A Fairytale Memoir. A happy resident in Hedgebrook’s Meadow House, Janine is also a Mesa Refuge alumna and a MacDowell Fellow. Writing about her early days as the mother of premature twins earned her an Elizabeth George Foundation Fellowship while her more recent writings on the sex-trafficking of young girls in Oakland, California received the San Francisco Foundation/Nomadic Press Literary Award for Nonfiction. She lives in Oakland with her family. Learn more at janinekovac.com.