Janey Bennett
Photo by Wayne Wiens
The author of the award-winning novel The Pale Surface of Things (Hopeace Press, 2007), Janey Bennett has enjoyed colourful and varied careers, from radio announcer to horse trainer and drama critic. She spent five winters teaching English to Theravada Buddhist nuns in Thailand. Her writings on architecture have been published in the United States and Finland, where she held a Fulbright research fellowship.
The Pale Surface of Things is Bennett's first novel, leading her into the study of classical Greek, Byzantine icon painting, geology, botany, the vernacular architecture and sociology of Greek villages, Minoan culture and art, the science of archaeology, World War II on Crete, and criminal law in Greece.
Her short story, Eeva Dreams of Falling (Summer Story Press 2009), set in Finland and Sweden, was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Her second novel (still in work) received the Joanna Catherine Scott Novel Excerpt Award from PEN Nob Hill's Soul-Making Awards.
Janey is principal organizer of Hornby Island Cellothon, a workshop for adult amateur cellists. A cellist herself, as well as a freelance editor and author, Bennett makes Hornby Island her home. She is available for readings and to speak to book groups.
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