A bio is a funny thing, a few lines to say "This is who I am." It doesn't, and yet necessary. Where do I get to say I have my mother's droll sense of humor, that she taught me to read, that my grandmother wrote poetry and my grandfather told tales?
Janet holds a BFA from Kansas State University, an MA from St. John’s College, and an MDiv from Sophia Divinity School. Ordained to the Independent Catholic priesthood in 1997, she and her husband Cliff Kroski co-pastor a community in Kansas City, teach at area colleges, and retreat to the quiet of the family's farm in the summer.
In her travels and transformations, Janet gathered several professions. Along with writer, teacher, and clergy, she’s a spiritual healer and mentor and a gifted intuitive. She’s also a sometimes actor and in 2008, her most recent movie, Hope, went to the Cannes Film Festival. She writes creative nonfiction and poetry. Both have appeared in a variety of small press publications.
She recently completed a spiritual memoir, Standing at the Crossroad and is at work on two other creative nonfiction memoirs, one about returning to her Kansas roots, Kansas Chronicles, and the second about the need and search for a feminine face to God, Finding the Feminine Face of God.