2019 | Janet Steen

Janet Steen is a writer based in the Hudson Valley, north of New York City. She has published widely as a journalist and essayist. She worked as an editor and writer for magazines including Esquire, Rolling Stone, Details, and Time Out New York.

In 2012, Janet co-founded the literary essay site The Weeklings. Her work was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2013. She edits books through her business Editrixie. As co-curator of a literary series in Brooklyn called Murmrr Lit at Murmrr Theatre, she has introduced and hosted world-renowned writers including Karl Ove Knausgaard, Maggie Nelson and George Saunders.

In Collemacchia Janet continued working on her first novel. The book explores themes of nostalgia, social disconnection, musical obsession and longing, gentrification, and love versus infatuation. It is a social critique as well as an emotional contemplation of nostalgia and the costs of progress. The novel hinges on the question: How do we leave the past behind while still honouring the things we most love about it?

https://theweeklings.com/jsteen/2013/10/04/gravitys-rainbow/