Janet Guastavino is a native Californian and a fifth-generation San Franciscan. She attended UC Berkeley, where she researched and earned a degree in Women’s and Ethnic Studies. She has been writing poetry for the past fifteen years and has been published digitally and in print. She curates a web site called "The Crone’s Words" that features poetry and flash fiction about mental health and emotional well-being written by women over the age of fifty-five.
