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Jean Hegland

Biography

Jean Hegland

A native of Washington state, Jean Hegland lives near Healdsburg, California, on 55 acres of second-growth forest with her husband and three children. She teaches English and Creative Writing at Santa Rosa Junior College, and home-schools her children. A portion of her royalties from Into the Forest will be donated to reforestation efforts. The author of The Life Within: Celebration of a Pregnancy, Jean Hegland is currently at work on a novel about motherhood in the late twentieth century, to be published by Bantam.

Jean Hegland