About Janna
My services as a psychic book coach, writing guide, teacher, and retreat leader move people towards total writing freedom and emotional transformation. I blend strong intuitive gifts with facilitation experience to reveal what holds you back from your deepest expression. I offer retreats for memoir, poetry, and book-blueprinting in stunning Santa Fe, New Mexico, and Sedona, Arizona through Land of Enchantment Writing www.landofenchantmentwriting.com.
People come from all over the country to work with me one-on-one to navigate book-completion journeys.
I was the 2023 Santa Fe Poet Laureate Ambassador. I conducted dozens of public workshops, and developed innovate community-based programs to make poetry equitable, accessible, and available in everyday life. Here are a few articles about my work: 3 Questions, Pasatiempo, Santa Fe Reporter
I won 3rd place in fiction, for my short story, “Elaine’s Last Garden” in the New Mexican’s Pasatiempo annual statewide writing contest.
I’m the published author of the acclaimed books, “Me, My Selfie & Eye – a midlife conversation about lost identity, grief, and seeing who you are,” WinSome & Fuckdamonium and such is, both poem collections. I’m completing “The Bypass to Brilliance – the Writing Invitation Method for Authentic Creativity & Expression” based on my work with thousands of clients, out summer 2024.
I’m a regular blog contributor for BookBaby, one of the largest book self-publishing entities. Articles relate to insights and strategies for discovering writing freedom.
I was the creative writing outreach educator on behalf of New Mexico School for the Arts, a statewide public high school that serves students with an award-winning arts program. I traveled to all reaches of New Mexico to underserved communities and neighboring pueblos to teach creative writing to teenagers.
I graduated magna cum laude with an MFA in creative writing from Pacific Northwest College of Art – a literary arts program seeped in writing as a means of equity and social justice. I’ve had work published in New Mexico State Poetry Society’s poetry anthology, Glissando!, the Santa Fe Literary Review, the Bangalore Review, Millennial Pulp, Mountain Bluebird, Querencia Press, and an anthology of short stories by Free Spirit press.
In November 2021, My essay “What We Don’t Owe” won 1st place in the Santa Fe Reporter’s Annual Writing Contest. That was a huge honor!
In 2021 I was recognized by the Hillsboro Chamber School to Career program as Volunteer of the Year for my weekly writing workshops created for teen students during the pandemic. Award nominees are nominated based on the volunteer’s efforts to promote and model life-long learning as key to students’ future success.
Spring 2022, I was an invited guest reader for the community stage at the inaugural Santa Fe Literary Festival. I shared two new works, i am a woman because, and querencia~.
I host the variety podcast, “Eyedentity Talk,” a show dedicated to unearthing stories about compelling people making compelling discoveries about who they are. Each episode illuminates guests from all walks of life.
Reach out: janna@jannalopez.com