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Jann Huizenga is a photographer and writer who lives part-time in Sicily. The island cast such a spell on her that in 2007 she bought a damp house with an old green door in Ragusa Ibla—a stony village where lemons roll in the streets and bees grow fat as hummingbirds, where the local gelateria offers up cream of anise and petal of rose, where public clocks as well as people are way behind schedule, where street names are snatches of poetry: Orphanage Alley, Shadow Way, Laurel Lane, Dark Lane, Street of Chillblains, Street of Ballads, Street of Sighs.
Jann’s work has appeared in The Best Women’s Travel Writing 2009, The Best Travel Writing 2008, 30 Days in Italy (2nd ed.), A Woman’s World Again, Mambo Poa, The New Mexican, Arizona Daily Sun, Transitions Abroad, and elsewhere. She edited a literary anthology called Arrivals: Cross-Cultural Experiences in Literature. She’s won Grand Prizes in the 2009 Mikel Essery travel writing competition, the 2008 Wanderlust and Lipstick travel story competition, and the 2007 Book Passage Conference Travel Writer’s contest as well as seven Solas Awards for Best Travel Writing. She is a three-time Fulbright grantee and a recent Senior English Language Fellow in Rome. She spent two weeks in 2009 writing at the American Academy in Rome and is at work on a memoir, Kissing Sicilians.
When not in Sicily, she lives in Santa Fe, NM with her husband, Kim Crowley, whose work can be seen at sculpturebasis.com.
