Wayward Poet

<p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(132 121 66 1)>JAN SHIARELLA MCGRATH</span> is a lifelong teacher actor playwright and poet whose work is represented in literary journals and an East African anthology. Awarded a BA from SUNY Albany and graduate assistantship at Penn State University the author spent further years of study at University College Nairobi and the University of Maine. In Hawaii she adapted Dante's INFERNO and Milton's PARADISE LOST for stage presentations and went on to two decades of play writing. Twice nominated by the Hawaii State Theatre Council for excellence in acting awards in 2013 the Council presented her with a Po'okela award as playwright. Her book of selections HOME: FOUR PLAYS was published by Epigraph in 2020.</p><p class=ql-align-justify><br></p><p class=ql-align-justify>The author's poetry in this collection some cheeky others poignant or pointed or fierce are introspection and observation of family friends and lovers as well as places lived from rural hometown to Kenya Maine and her home now in Hawaii. Together they form the writer's memoir in poetry.</p><p><br></p>