About the Author

Jane P. Perry is a writer/ethnographer, sound artist, and climate protector. She released White Snake Diary: Exploring Self-Inscribers (Atmosphere Press) in 2020, highlighting now more than ever a diary’s documentarian and reflective functions in this time of awareness, healing and transformation. Jane interviews with Paula Whitacre, appears in the minipodcast Without Books, and has diary-related pieces in Persimmon Tree, McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, Women Writers, Women’s Books, The Oaklandside, and the National Women’s History Museum’s coronavirus project ‘Women Writing History,’ as well as several author readings including Hidden Timber Books’ Small Press Author Reading Series. Jane deeply appreciates the thoughtful feedback received on Amazon and Goodreads.

Jane’s sound poem “Echo Bridge” was one of The Missouri Review’s audio poetry finalists for 2021, where she is featured in The Missouri Review Miller Aud-cast. Jane is a member of 1000 Grandmothers For Future Generations, writing and producing art on our critical relationship with nature in Paper Dragon, Dove Tales, The Gloucester Times, Alluvian, Still Point Arts Quarterly, The Ravens Perch, and The Bluebird Word.

Jane is an expert on outdoor play. Her book Outdoor Play: Teaching Strategies with Young Children is published with Teachers College Press. She has chapters and articles with Pearson Education, Inc., Early Education and Development, American Journal of Play, the National Association for the Education of Young Children, Wayne State University Press, the quarterly The Mother is Me, and Huffington Post.

Jane lives on unceded land of the Lisjan Ohlone in the territory of Huichin (Oakland). 100% of the proceeds from White Snake Diary go to The Sogorea Te Land Trust, an urban Indigenous women-led 501c3 organization facilitating the return of SF Bay land to Indigenous stewardship, healing from the legacies of colonization and genocide, promotion of a different way of living, and the continuation of the work that the ancestors and future generations call us to do.

More from Jane P. Perry at: https://storytellinginsound.com/

Photograph by Kristin Cofer

Category: Books