Janie is a senior writer who contributes commentary to WORLD and oversees WORLD’s annual Children’s Books of the Year awards. She also writes novels for young adults and authored the Wordsmith creative writing curriculum. Janie resides in rural Missouri.
Cynics miss the point about community, parenthood, and marriage
Janie B. Cheaney | Deluge of supernatural young adult novels produce plots with mangled biblical truths
A ‘Great American Novel’ haunted by disillusion should point us to Someone bigger
A generation’s idea of ‘freedom’ challenges the human enterprise