Jan Best has written over 250 original tunes. Her music gravitates towards country, folk, and Christian tunes. She has toured professionally and has opened for Kitty Wells, Loretta Lynn, Johnny Paycheck, Billy Ray Cyrus, and John Conlee and the Robby Knievel World Record No-Hands Jump televised event.
Her popular university course--Songwriting Success--will be offered exclusively at Independent Songwriter Magazine's website, but songwriting is just one of her passions. Jan's poetry and short non-fiction has been published in scholarly publications such as The Great Lake Literary Review, Nota Bene and others. And her plays "Cravings" (winner of the 2004 Korby Award), and "Splinter" (winner of the New Voices 2005 Playwrighting Award) were produced and directed at SUNY Oswego's Black Box Theater in Oswego, New York.
In addition, she has a Bachelor's degree in English Writing Arts and a Master's degree in English Literature.
Her first book of poetry How The Dead Compose Love Songs: And Other Poems is available at Amazon.com, and through her personal website located at www.janbest.com.
Best also enjoys speaking/reading/writing Ancient Latin, writing fiction/non-fiction/poetry, ventriloquism, quantum physics, computer programming, evolutionary robotics, collecting vinyl albums, and drinking massive amounts of freshly-perked Maxwell House Slow Roast or French Roast coffee.
