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.
Slacker descendants of the postwar middle class are depleting America's social capital
A crushing defeat for Mother Earth turned into a sweet victory three days later
We need a better word for truths that stand independent of any evaluator