Fortune, Jan: - Jan Fortune is the founding editor of Cinnamon Press. She has published several novels, most recently the Casilda Trilogy, and poetry collections, including Stale Bread & Miracles and Slate Voices. In addition to working as an editor she mentors writers, leads writing workshops and residentials and runs the blog, Becoming A Different Story, to provide resources, community space and online courses for writers exploring how writing and life cohere. Her book about creative writing and the writing life is Writing Down Deep. She lives in a small hamlet in a Celtic forest.