Janet Mason

About the author

Janet Mason is an award-winning creative writer, teacher, and occasional blogger for such places as The Huffington Post. Her book, Tea Leaves, a memoir of mothers and daughters, published by Bella Books in 2012, was chosen by the American Library Association for its 2013 Over the Rainbow List. Tea Leaves also received a Goldie Award. Her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and her novel THEY, a biblical tale of secret genders (Adelaide Books – New York and Lisbon) was featured at the 2018 Frankfurt Book Fair. Adelaide Books also published her novel The Unicorn, The Mystery late in 2020. Her novel Loving Artemis. an endearing tale of revolution, love and marriage was published by Thorned Heart Press in August of 2022. Her novel CINNAMON, a dairy cow's (and her farmer's) path to freedom, was published by Adelaide Books in 2024. Most recently, in 2026, her hybrid memoir The Lens of Eternity: Queer Love from Two Pandemics (focusing on her life and her partner's the year they went to a plant-based diet, as well as on the noted photographer Berenice Abbott and her partner, the art critic Elizabeth McCausland) was published by Wipf and Stock Publishing.