Writer of slice-of-life essays and mysteries laced with what-ifs.
Sometimes haunting…often funny…always spiked with hope.
Jan Heidrich-Rice wrote her first paid piece for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, “Advice: Better to Give than to Get,” in the 1990s. It shined a light on all the unsolicited advice that comes a woman’s way when she enters the world of motherhood.
She earned a Master’s degree in applied and creative writing from Kennesaw State University and put her skills to work in the grants and resource development arena, where she was blessed to lend a voice to "work that matters." One of her true passions—aside from her family, gardening, and the water—has always been creative writing.
In addition to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Jan’s work has appeared in Quilt Magazine, I Do for Brides, and The Atlanta Lawyer. Her short story “Murder on Lake Allatoona” was part of a Sisters in Crime anthology, Mystery, Atlanta Style, produced by Ladybug Press.
A sucker for place, Jan often sets her stories in the South but also likes to revisit the lakes and lushness of her Michigan roots. Recently, she's completed two novels—both contemporary stories—one with light paranormal elements ready to query, the other being stripped apart to rework. Yet again. She's also begun work on a humorous travelogue-marriage memoir with the working title: One Wrong Turn at a Time.
Jan lives with her husband near Atlanta and enjoys spending time with friends and family, which includes three adult children and their partners, a grandson and a granddaughter, and three grandpups.