About: Janet Oakley
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- JL Oakley has published personal essays in Cup of Comfort ranging from the dreams of four generations of women in her family to doing drywall after the sudden loss of her husband. “Dry Wall in the Time of Grief” was the top winner in non-fiction at Surrey International Writers in 2006. Her articles on Washington State history are at Historylink.org. Her novels THE JOSSING AFFAIR and TREE SOLDIER were finalists at the Pacific Northwest Writers Association lit contest. TREE SOLDIER was recently published. An historian and educator, she has taught everything from splitting shakes to making butter to 3rd graders at a cabin in the woods, researched the life a 19th century West Coast bark and hiked across Haleakula Crater on Maui twice, ignoring the pain the next day going down 10,000 feet to the ocean below. She loves gardening and eating the fruits of her labor. Lately, she planted flax to figure out how to ripple, ret, scutch, and hackle it. The linen yarn may be too rough for weaving, but it’s the journey that counts. JL lives in the Pacific Northwest and writes every day. No matter what.
