Jan Cherubin
author of The Orphan's Daughter, a Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2020, has an MFA in fiction and literature from the Bennington Writing Seminars and has taught creative writing at Woodbury University and Santa Monica College extension. Her online writing and literature classes attract students from all over the U.S. Cherubin has received fellowships from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and the Vermont Studio Center, and has studied with some of the masters including Bernard Malamud, John Gardner, Barry Hannah, and Alice McDermott. Her journalism, creative nonfiction, and reviews have appeared in The Los Angeles Review of Books, Los Angeles Magazine, New York Magazine, Seventeen, and others.
Cherubin is also a playwright and standup comic performing in clubs around Los Angeles.