Jana Harris (born September 21, 1947) is an American poet, novelist, and essayist and the founder of one of the internet's first electronic poetry journals.
[1] She is the founder and editor of Switched-on Gutenberg, one of the internet's earliest electronic poetry journals.
Two other poem collections, Oh How Can I Keep on Singing: Voices of Pioneer Women (1993) and You Haven't Asked About My Wedding or What I Wore: Poems of Courtship on the American Frontier (2014), are based on the diaries, reminiscences, and stories of American pioneer women of the 19th century such as Martha Gay Masterson and Catherine Sager Pringle.
[1] One critic termed Oh How Can I Keep on Singing "vivid, authentic, and moving",[3] while another wrote that Harris has "rescued from virtual oblivion the voices of these women, who have much to tell us about ourselves and our own world.
[1][5][6] Writer Lynn Middleton has based a play, Fair Sex, on Harris's poetry.