Jan Worth is a writer, poet, and essayist in Flint, Michigan. She taught writing for two decades at the University of Michigan—Flint and has taught at the Flint Institute of Arts. She was a longtime columnist and for five years, editor of Flint’s venerable East Village Magazine.
She is the author of the novel Night Blind and the essay collection That’s My Moon Over Court Street: Dispatches from a Life in Flint. Her work has appeared in Belt Magazine, Dunes Review, Driftwood Review, Exposition Review, Gravel, The MacGuffin, Hypertext Magazine, and others.
An Ohio native, she is a former newspaper reporter, social worker, and Peace Corps volunteer. She lives with her husband in a big old house on a tree-lined street in Flint.
Paperback: 58 pages
Publisher: Kelsay Books (March 4, 2026)
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