Janet Nichols Lynch

Background

Janet was born and raised in Sacramento, California. Her father was William Nichols, a refrigeration engineer, and her mother was Lena Graifenberg Nichols, a homemaker.

Education

Bachelor in Music, California State University, Sacramento, 1974. Master of Music in Piano, Arizona State University, 1976. Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing, California State University, Fresno, 2002.

Career

She has one older sister, Joyce. In 1984 Janet’s first published short story appeared in The New Yorker, and since then her fiction has been included in Seventeen, The San Joaquin Review, The Baltimore Review, Confrontation, Writers" Forum, and the anthology of California writers Highway 99: a Literary Journey through California’s Great Central Valley. Foreign the past thirteen years, Janet has read her fiction on Valley Public Radio’s Valley Writers Read (KVPR, Fresno and KVPX Bakersfield FM 893), hosted by Franz Weinschenk.

She has taught music at De Anza College, Cupertino, and Skyline College, San Bruno, and music and English at College of the Sequoias, Visalia.

Currently she teaches English at El Diamante High school. She competes in marathons and triathlons, and once rode her bike from Phoenix, Arizona to Washington, District of Columbia They have two grown children, Caitlin and Sean.

Lynch has credited her classical music training for her discipline in writing.

Achievements

• Janet Nichols Lynch has been listed as a notable English language educator, writer by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member of California Association Teachers English, National Guild Piano Teachers.

Interests

• Competing in triathlons and marathons, swimming, running, bicycling.

Connections

Married Timothy Edward Lynch, June 30, 1984. Children: Caitlin Grace, Sean Nichols.

Father:

William Rolland Nichols

Mother:

Lena Donna (Graifemberg) Nichols

Spouse:

Timothy Edward Lynch

child:

Caitlin Grace Lynch

child:

Sean Nichols Lynch