About The Author

JANIS HARPER is a writer, singer-songwriter, actor, and former adjunct English professor turned expressive arts therapist. Her lifelong passions for the arts, metaphysics, spirituality, and philosophy come together in Jonas and the Mountain. Although fictional, she considers it to be the truest work she’s ever written.

Janis’s writing can be found in literary journals and anthologies, including two creative nonfiction anthologies that she conceived and edited: Body Breakdowns: Tales of Illness and Recovery and Emails From India: Women Write Home. She has presented her work in Canada, the US, and India, and lives in British Columbia.