Janice Avellana, NBCT

Jan Avellana was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii, and has always been part fish. Perhaps because her proper form is a mermaid, she has never quite found her way in the hustle and bustle of a traditional life. ​ A wanderer at heart, Jan’s first creative inklings came through creative writing as a child. She was known to burrow herself away in snug, sunlit corners as she escaped into her world of books and writing. Much later, Jan discovered the visual arts and found her wanderlust continued as she explored different media—collage, illustration, graphic design, painting, encaustic art, and papier mache, just to name a few. Even today, she is most at home with wide open seas and vast landscapes that allow her to follow wherever her heart leads. ​ Jan is an elementary teacher by day, an artist, and a writer by night. She is always a mom to her boys Seth and Cody, her fur baby Radar, and partner-in-crime to her husband, Steve.