Jan Houston - World Artist

Throughout her professional lifetime as a performing artist - both singer and actor - writer and editor, photographer, producer and human rights activist, Jan Houston has remained a compassionate and entertaining voice in a world she helps to wake.

As a past professional jazz and rock singer for two decades, and a poet warrior since age 9, she has been showcased in many prestigous publications and venues and has been Awarded for Outstanding Achievement by Artists For A Better World.

Current projects include her upcoming novel HAVENWOOD and expanded editions of her poetry volumes - HEROES AND OTHER SPIRITS and SEASONS OF THE MOON - plus her latest, CROSSROADS OF A WOMAN'S HEART.

The author, on the art of writing: "As with any writer, my works can (indeed) seem like my children - except that, unlike my children, I have the option and duty to guide them to be precisely what I choose. But after I craft and cut and hone and push and pull them around like so much Silly Putty, there is a point when - if I just listen and let them say what they want and become what they are - some of them actually turn out great."

Jan resides with her husband, documentary filmmaker and producer, Tom Solari, in Burbank, California.