About Janice
Janice Brabaw was born in the rural community of Hermon, New York in 1979. From an early age, Janice turned to writing to both escape a lonely childhood and to create her own universe. She completed her first book - three notebooks full of New Kids on the Block fanfiction - at age ten. She later would spend her teenage years drafting a trilogy of vampire novels called Dark Secrets. As a junior and senior in high school she was selected to participate in the St. Lawrence University Writer's Conference in Saranac Lake and would later attend SLU as a Writing Major. While in college, Janice flirted with poetry and fiction writing, but eventually concentrated in screenwriting and film. Her senior year, she was one of twelve English students accepted into the Honors Program at St. Lawrence. She later completed a full-length feature screenplay as her thesis called The Space Between. During her time at St. Lawrence, she was also tapped to join the Irving Bacheller English Honorary Society as one of the youngest inductees in its history.
In 2001, Janice graduated St. Lawrence and established Tangled Up In Blue Productions to produce The Space Between. Three weeks after 9/11, she moved to New York City with two hundred dollars in her pocket to rally support for her film. While struggling to live in the Big Apple, she held many random jobs to support her project including house cleaning, handing out flyers for weight loss products in Times Square, working as a private antiquarian librarian, and most infamously, as a phone sex operator. The film began principal photography in 2002 and was eventually shot with Brabaw at the helm as director as well as producer.
Her personal foray into film production led her to a life as a freelancer in the industry. Seven years after she moved to New York, Janice is an established production coordinator and production accountant in television and film. She currently lives in Brooklyn, New York with her menagerie of cats and fish and plants.
She is author of two books that detail her struggle with depression, borderline personality disorder, and binge eating disorder - And Again: A Memoir of a Life Disordered and a collection of poetry called Universe, Disturbed. Janice also is the editor of The Best of Stain - an anthology of performers from the two series she founded and curates in Brooklyn - Stained Glass Confessional and An Echo, A Stain. No stranger to the stage herself, Janice has performed all through New York State and New England and especially in her adopted home, New York City. She has appeared at Cornelia Street Cafe, The Production Lounge, The Library Lounge, Soule' Series, Otto's Shrunken Head, Perch Cafe Reading Series, The Inspired Word, The Creek and The Cave, and The Bowery Poetry Club. Janice's work has been featured in several lit magazines including Poesis, smoke, Violent Femininity - A Journal of Female Poets, The Toronto Quarterly, A Brilliant Record, The Cartier Review, and Ophelia Street.
Ms. Brabaw is also the founder of Tangled Up In Blue Productions, an independent book publisher and literary event planning and promotion company. In 2009, TUIB announced the creation of its own literary journal called Persephonous Blue with Brabaw as Editor-in-Chief.
