Jane Hale

Jane Hale began her professional life as a professor of Early English Literature and has taught at Rutgers University, Central Washington University, and the University of Alaska Southeast. She has published numerous essays on early European literature and painting. In 1995 she moved to Juneau to take work as a writer for NOAA, a career she retired from in 2016.  As a volunteer, she has taught writing courses and Latin to inmates at the Lemon Creek Correctional Center, and she runs her own business giving Writing for the Workplace seminars across Alaska and the Pacific Northwest.  From 2014 to 2016, the Juneau Empire published Jane's award-winning newspaper column On Writing, and under the nom de guerre of Johnny Negotiable, she hosts her radio show Episodes in the History of Noise on Friday mornings on KRNN-FM.  At 72 Jane is a budding violinist and has performed as a guest artist for the Juneau Community Chorus and in Theater Alaska’s production of A Christmas Carol.