Jeanne Burrows-Johnson

In fiction and non-fiction, I draw on my experience in the performing arts, commerce and education. As both an author and co-author, I try to bring a humorous and engaging voice to articles and essays that have appeared in business, literary professional and general readership publications, including: Newport This Week, Broker World, he Hawai'i Medical Journal; The Rotarian, and Under Sonoran Skies, Prose and Poetry from the High Desert [a top 50 pick for 2012 by Southwest Books of the Year]. In the award-winning The Natalie Seachrist Hawaiian Mysteries, I take inspiration from the people and stories of Hawaiʻi, where I lived for over twenty years.   

Academically, I was accepted for membership in the Phi Beta Kappa Society, while completing a Bachelor of Arts degree in History at the University of Hawaiʻi. During graduate studies of post-World War II Japan, I became a member of Phi Alpha Theta and received a teaching assistantship in the World Civilization Program in the History Department of the University of Hawai`i. I am also a member of Sisters in Crime, Arizona Mystery Writers, the National Writers Union, and a lifetime member of the Highland Division of the British Association of Teachers of Dancing.  

My public addresses are noted for intercultural references and historical asides. Focusing on life's synchronicity, I strive to bring an integrated perspective to seminars for diverse groups of professionals and the general public. As a consulting wordsmith, I draw on my interdisciplinary background to assist writers, authors, and other creative professionals achieve their desired potential.  The greatest compliment I receive as a wordsmith and design consultant to entrepreneurs, creative professionals, executives, and their organizations, is "You said what I would have said, if I knew how, but you didn't change me!"