Janet Goven, born and raised in Pittsburgh, PA, will be married to her husband Nicholas, fifty years in September. The mother of two, one deceased, grandmother of three, and great-grandmother of two. She is now retired, grateful that she has time to spend with her husband, family, and to pursue her love for reading and writing. Keeping journals, writing of her life's experiences, Sunday School lessons, Bible studies, short stories, she finally started writing poetry, falling in love with the idea of expressing her thoughts in this way.