Jane is the editor of the anthology Single Woman of a Certain Age: Romantic Escapades, Empty Nests, Shifting Shapes, and Serene Independence (New World Library, 5/09), a collection of wise and witty voices of single women in their prime: Joyce Maynard, Merrill Markoe, April Sinclair, Wendy Merrill and many more. Of the anthology, the Hartford Courant wrote: “This collection of essays shows that writers know plenty about love: how it works, when it works, when it doesn’t, and why it’s not always the be-all and end-all of a woman’s emotional life. Growing older solo is fraught with challenges—but also with opportunities.”
Naked on the Page: The Misadventures of My Unmarried Midlife is Jane’s memoir of the year she turned 50 and started writing her newspaper column about single life. Of her book, Publisher’s Weekly wrote: “Ganahl’s writing is sassy, fiery (the prose equivalent of her red hair and love of rock and roll), and many readers will nod in amused sympathy as she recounts her disastrous forays into the world of online dating or laments the difficulty of looking sexy in a sensible heel. But the book isn’t all self-deprecating humor. Reeling from the one-two punch of her mother’s and sister’s deaths and struggling to accept her daughter’s increasing independence, Ganahl tackles the bigger issues as well.”
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Anthologies I contributed essays to:
He Said What?
Women Write About Moments When Everything Changed
Single State of the Union
Single Women Speak Out on Life Love and the Pursuit of Happiness
The Face in the Mirror
Writers Reflect on Their Dreams of Youth and the Reality of Age
The Secret Lives of Lawfully Wedded Wives
27 Women Writers on Love, Infidelity, Sex Roles, Race, Kids, and More
Roar Softly and Carry a Great Lipstick
28 Women Writers on Life, Sex and Survival
