Jan Priddy

Jan Priddy was born in Corvallis, Oregon and completed two Bachelor of Fine Arts degrees in the visual arts and a BA in Education at the University of Washington, cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa.  Her metal work and ceramic sculpture was shown in galleries and museums throughout the west. And then she had children. Her writing has earned publication in Brevity magazine and the Brevity blog, CALYX, Liminal Stories, Metaphorosis, Raven Chronicles, StringTown, WORK, The Humanist, and North American Review, as well as inclusion in Women Runners (2001) and What Does It Mean to Be White in America? (2016). Since completing the Pacific University MFA program in fiction (2017), she continues writing fiction, nonfiction, and poetry on the north Oregon coast. 

Part of the first chapter of a novel, ALL THE DAUGHTERS SING, is available in a podcast at Metaphorosis.