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  <name><![CDATA[Janet Nichols Lynch]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[	Janet Nichols Lynch’s new novel CHEST PAINS is about Gordon Clay, a failed musician turned community college music instructor who suffers chest pains.  While he fears heart disease, he is in fact suffering a crisis of the spirit.  Grappling with his midlife crisis, he tutors his student Cecilia, a tone deaf , marathon-running ex-nun, and revisits the Catholicism of his childhood.  Gordon falls in love with Mikilauni a young, unwed Polynesian mother, and becomes the father figure to her son, Moopuna, a small boy of Pacific Island and African descent .  LIBRARY JOURNAL calls Lynch’s novel “Lighthearted ….noteworthy….capably rendered ….memorable.”

Janet, born and raised in Sacramento, California, is the author of seven books.  In 1984 her first published short story appeared in THE NEW YORKER, and since then her fiction has been included in SEVENTEEN, SAN JOAQUIN REVIEW, BALTIMORE REIVEW, CONFRONTATION, WRITER'S FORUM, and the anthology of California writers HIGHWAY 99: A LITERARY JOURNEY THROUGH CALIFORNIA'S GREAT CENTRAL VALLEY. For the past eleven years, Janet has read her fiction on Valley Public Radio’s (KVPR, Fresno and KVPX Bakersfield FM 89.3)VALLEY WRITERS READ, hosted by Franz Weinschenk.

	Janet received a B.A. in Music from California State University, Sacramento, a Master of Music Degree in Piano from Arizona State University, and a M.F.A. in Creative Writing from California State University, Fresno, where she was the 2003 Outstanding Thesis Award Nominee for the College of Arts and Humanities.  She has taught music at De Anza College, Cupertino, and Skyline College, San Bruno, and music and English at College of the Sequoias, Visalia; currently she teaches English at El Diamante High school.  She competes in marathons and triathlons, and once rode her bike from Phoenix, AZ to Washington, D.C.  She lives in Visalia with her husband, Timothy, and their college-age children, Caitlin and Sean.


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