Givens, Janet

Janet Givens was born in northern New Jersey at the beginning of the baby boomer generation. She has both a BS (NYU) and an MA (Kent State, OH) in sociology and worked in non-profit development for 25 years. In 1999, she began her next career as a Gestalt psychotherapist, which ended in 2004 when she began her Peace Corps journey. At Home On the Kazakh Steppe: A Peace Corps Memoir (Ant Press, Publisher) was first published in August 2014 (Ant Press), with a second edition published in March 2015 (Birch Tree Books). Her first book, Stuttering (Pro-Ed, Publisher), co-authored with C. W. Starkwea...