Janna Cawrse Esarey fell in love with a fisherman when she was nineteen years old. He dumped her. Five years later he came crawling back. She dumped him. Two years later . . . well, the story ends (or begins) with a honeymoon across the Pacific on a leaky, old, and conspicuously small sailboat. Janna’s travel memoir, The Motion of the Ocean: 1 Small Boat, 2 Average Lovers, & a Woman's Search for the Meaning of Wife (Touchstone/Fireside, June 2009), is as much about navigating relationships as navigating the world.

Janna blogs about love-and-marriage for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer at “Happily Even After." Her work has appeared in sailing magazines and anthologies, most recently, More Sand in my Bra (Travelers’ Tales, 2007). With a BA in philosophy and MA in English, Janna was a teacher and Teach For America corps member before becoming a writer. She lives in Seattle with her fisherman, their two daughters, and the friendly ghost of a dog named Scout.

(Photo by Midori Jordan)

www.byjanna.com