Janeen Brian is an award-winning, children’s author and poet with over 100 books published in both trade and educational publishing.
She enjoys writing picture books, junior fiction, poetry, novels and non-fiction. Many have won awards and been translated and distributed worldwide. Over 200 of her poems and stories have been published in children’s magazines and have appeared in over a dozen anthologies.
Janeen won The Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature Carclew Fellowship in 2012 and was awarded a May Gibbs Children’s Literature Trust Creative Fellowship in 2009. For ten years, she was an Ambassador for the Premier’s Reading Challenge and a Role Model for Books in Homes. Now she is an Ambassador for Raising Literacy Australia (The Little Big Book Club).
