About
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Janice Fixter was born in Kent and has lived in South East London ever since. She has a BA in psychology from London University (Goldsmiths College) and an MA in Creative Writing, the Arts and Education and a D.Phil. in Creative Writing (poetry) from Sussex University.
Janice has been writing poetry and non-fiction since 1994 and has been widely published. Her poems have been broadcast on Premier Radio, LBC and Radio 4 as well as various local radio stations. She has read her poetry at a number of venues including The Troubadour and the Poetry Cafe as well as taking part in the Oxfam 7 Poets for 2007 series.
Janice has also written numerous non-fiction articles and two books on parenting – The Parentalk Guide to being a Mum (Hodder and Stoughton 2000), and How to Succeed as a Single Parent (Hodder and Stoughton 2003) with Diane Louise Jordan. From 2001 – 2007 she was a trustee of Parentalk – a charity which aims to inspire parents. During this time she regularly contributed to radio and television programmes.
In 1997 Poets Anonymous published her chapbook Walking Away From The Shadows and in 2005 her pamphlet Walking the Hawk was published by tall-lighthouse press. Her first full collection a kind of slow motion was published in 2007 (tall-lighthouse press). Janice is currently training to become a spiritual director. She is passionate about birds, bats and orchids.