Welcome to the World of Janina Marie Fuller
Janina is the author of the newly released, The Gecko in the Bathtub: Encounters with Marvelous Creatures. Along with writing books, she offers writing workshops and a delightful blog to bring people closer to nature.
Illustrations by Maggie Demorest
Janina’s book
The Gecko in the Bathtub:
Encounters with Marvelous Creatures
The Gecko in the Bathtub: Encounters with Marvelous Creatures is a collection of short stories about special moments Dr. Fuller has shared with animals around the world and across her lifetime. Balancing gentle humor with thoughtful insight, Dr. Fuller weaves together stories of her family and travels with moments of awe at the wonders of the natural world.
Workshops
Writer’s Workshop: Finding your voice
This workshop welcomes anyone who writes or who has ever wanted to write. Whether you keep a daily journal or haven’t written in years, whether you consider yourself to be a good or bad speller, whether or not someone at some point in your life was harshly critical of your writing . . . none of that matters here. Following the Amherst Writers and Artists (AWA) method, as taught by its originator, writer Pat Schneider, participants will be invited to write in response to a prompt, to share our writing with the group, and to receive positive feedback.
Each workshop will meet once per week for two hours over six consecutive weeks. Group members are asked to attend every session if possible. Registration for each workshop will be limited to seven participants. Registrations will be accepted on a first-come, first-served basis.
Questions regarding workshops may be addressed to janinamfuller@gmail.com.
Note: The workshops are not meant for refinement of manuscripts or other work already written. Each session will present an opportunity to create fresh and original pieces.
What’s New
Recent Blog Posts
Dancing Leaves
No doubt the trees have been more relieved than usual to release their leafy burdens this year, and the leaves even moreso to relinquish their duties on behalf of their woody parental stems and trunks. As the truck moved along the road in front of me this morning, keeping to the 20-mile-per-hour speed limit, the leaves covering the road it crossed were ecstatic in the dance that they danced for my eyes only.
May Musings
The birth of my daughter meant that I got to celebrate Mother’s Day, also in May, but then May got really and truly crowded when my son was born on May 10th. So now we had mom and dad’s anniversary on May 8th, Robbie’s birthday on May 10th, my and my ex’s anniversary on May 12, and Mother’s Day tended to get lost in the shuffle, even falling some years on the same day as Robbie’s birthday and so I often had to swallow my chops and take a back seat while my ex would smile and say, “Every day is Mother’s Day!” and I didn’t slap him.
Merry Citrusmas and Happy New Year
You haven’t truly had good lemonade until you’ve had lemonade made from Meyer lemons. One of the great good fortunes of living in South Louisiana is that I get to have Meyer lemonade all year long.
about the author
Meet Janina
Author, Nature-Lover, and Teacher
Janina Marie Fuller was born and raised in Indianapolis, Indiana at a time when lightening bugs hanging in the front yard air at dusk were even more plentiful than bees sipping clover in the back yard at dawn. After completing a B.S. in zoology from Oregon State University, Janina served for two years as a Peace Corps Volunteer and community organizer in a highland tribal village of the northern Philippines.
After returning to the U.S., she pursued her commitment to community service as a project coordinator, public speaker, educator, consultant and administrator in global and local nonprofit organizations working to address hunger and homelessness at home and abroad. Janina received a master’s degree in Biology from Portland State University and a PhD in workforce development from Louisiana State University.
Never one to shy away from adventure, Janina has bartered in Hong Kong, paddled the Boundary Waters, prayed among the Stonehenge megaliths, danced the part of a wood nymph, learned to fly a plane, topped Yosemite’s Half Dome, played Queen Elizabeth I on stage, birdwatched in the Amazon forest canopy and snorkeled in the Galápagos.
She currently resides in South Louisiana with her husband Tom and their dog, Utah. Binoculars always within reach, Janina continues to enjoy time on the dock by the back yard pond during the day and on the screened porch at night, ready to welcome the next marvelous creature.
Contact
Get in Touch with Janina
Janina is available for interviews, speaking events, and other public opportunities regarding the book and her writing process.
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