Janine CananBorn Janine Burford on November 2, 1942 in Los Angeles, California, she graduated from Stanford University cum laude in 1963. She married Michael Canan, a law student, and moved to Berkeley where she did graduate study and taught at the University ofCalifornia. In her thirties, she attended New York University School of Medicine and completed a psychiatric residency at Herrick and Mt Zion Hospitals in the San Francisco Bay Area. Since 1979, Dr. Canan has been active in private psychiatric practice, consulting for various clinics and organizations, and currently volunteers for Amma's Embracing the World charities. Canan's writing has appeared in hundreds of anthologies and journals including the San Francisco Chronicle, California Quarterly, New Directions, Exquisite Corpse, Women's Review of Books, WeMoon, Femspec, Tower Journal, Israel Horizons, Journal of Archaeomythology and the Journal of Hindu Studies. She was former poetry editor for Awakened Woman and served on the editorial board of Ochre: Journal of Women's Spirituality. She has given countless readings, and occasional workshops, throughout the United States from Stanford to the Smithsonian, in France and Greece, on radio and television. Janine Canan's papers are housed in the University of Iowa's Special Collections, and her books in the University of California at Berkeley Bancroft Library. Read More Read Less