Jane St. Clair, Tucson Writer

Jane St. Clair is a writer living in Tucson, Arizona. A former staff member of “Sesame Street,” Jane has published over 40 children’s books in South Korea and 54 children’s stories in the United States. About two dozen of Jane’s short stories appear in various literary magazines and anthologies. “Walk Me to Midnight” is her suspense thriller that takes a stand against Dr. Death’s like Jack Kevorkian.

Jane’s essay about the heart-breaking love affair of Emily Dickinson and Colonel Thomas Higginson placed in the Tom Howard/John H. Reid Essay Contest. See The Colonel Catches A Cat Fish

“The Year of the Tomato” is a short story by Jane St. Clair you can find here in the international literary journal, The Bangalore Review.

“Hair Like Julia Roberts,” appears in the Spring/Summer 2020 issue of Weber, the Contemporary West literary journal. Jane’s story is about a couple who tries to escape a religious desert cult.

“Mute,” Jane’s short story about a hospice clown who is confused after she witnesses a murder, is live online in the 97th issue of Image — see Mute by Jane St. Clair.

Crossing Class anthology. Jane’s short story, “Secrets of Mama Kardashian,” is now available from Wising Up Press in the This book is about Americans who cross class boundaries through immigration, education, marriage, and other means, and how it feels to leave the familiar behind you. To buy a copy of this wonderful book, go to the bookstore at Wising Up Press.

Negative Capability Press accepted Jane St. Clair’s short story, “The Gerber Secret.” It appears in “Family Secrets” issue.

Jane’s coming-of-age story, “Touched By Copenhagen,” was published in the annual edition of poemmemoirstory.

Jane St. Clair’s essay “Nowhere Near” appears in  Ruminate magazine.

“The Man Who Liked 1959” by Jane St. Clair is included in a new anthology now available to order from Twisted Road Publications. See Walking the Edge – A Southern Gothic Anthology

Carbon Culture Review has a terrific issue on the intersection of technology, art and literature– Read Jane’s piece ScreenBytes

For a complete listing of Jane St. Clair’s publications, go to the Directory of Poets and Writers

Jane St Clair’s Biography

Jane St. Clair grew up in Chicago and worked her way through Northwestern University as a factory welder, beauty shop attendant, commercial sign maker, cocktail waitress and more. After earning a journalism degree, she worked in Chicago’s ghettos as a welfare caseworker. Later she was on the staffs of “Sesame Street” in New York City and Channel 11/PBS-TV in Chicago, and as a newspaper reporter/photographer for the Louisville-Courier Journal and weekly papers in rural Indiana and Appalachian Kentucky.

Jane St. Clair’s father, mother, and sister all died of cancer in hospice settings.  Sitting with hospice nurses with family members sometimes for months or more, Jane saw for herself what she depicts in her suspense novel, Walk Me to Midnight. Walk Me to Midnight is dedicated to hospice nurses and takes up the challenge of the assisted suicide controversy.

Jane St. Clair’s short stories appear literary magazines such as Thema, descant, J Journal, Rosebud, Clockwatch Review, QWF, Clare, 300 Days of Sun, and Red Rock Review and several literary anthologies, including Times of Grace, Times of Sorrow published by the University of Nebraska, Mourning Sickness from Omni Press, and a 2012 anthology of sports fiction from Main Street Rag. She is first runner up in the 2013 Attic Fiction contest, the 2007 winner of the True Life Story contest, 2006 first place winner of The Writers Network contest, American Accolades (first place), Hollywood’s Next Success, and 2005 winner in television writing for Scriptapalooza. She has also published over 50 stories for children and 21 children’s books. Walk Me to Midnight is her first novel, a book that takes a strong stand against assisted suicide.

Jane St Clair As A Non-Fiction Writer

Jane St Clair has been a free-lance writer for over ten years, writing hundreds of web articles on a variety of topics, including a famous series on bullying. She published two full-length non-fiction books on psychology and etiquette and e-books on subjects like MySpace, How to Find A Lost Cat, A Guide to Attention Deficit Disorder, Asperger Syndrome, Charm and Beauty Guide for Teens, and many more.   Jane St. Clair has also written press releases, advertisements, and political speeches and covered national conventions. Her series on financial literacy, “The Money Express,” won several national awards and received more than a million “hits” on the Internet.

Guide to Jane St Clair’s website

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