Jan DeBlieu (born 1955) is an American author and essayist whose work often focuses on how people are shaped by the landscapes and places where they live.
She is the author of four books, including Hatteras Journal (1987), Meant to Be Wild (1991), Wind (1998) (which won the John Burroughs Medal for Distinguished Natural History Writing, the highest national honor for that genre) and Year of the Comets (2005).
She worked briefly as a newspaper journalist but has spent most of her career writing essays, magazine articles, and books about natural landscapes and how the places where we spend our time help shape who we are.
Jan's latest writings concentrate on her experiences as a climate change migrant and on questions of what shapes our individual perceptions of Home.
In addition to her role as a coastkeeper for the NC Coastal Federation, in 1988 she helped form a grassroots conservation group that battled against a plan by Mobil and other oil companies to drill for natural gas off the Outer Banks.