Resident

Jean Hegland
From 18 September to 20 November 2019

Fondation Jan Michalski © Wiktoria Bosc

Fondation Jan Michalski © Wiktoria Bosc

Biography

Jean Hegland was born in 1956 and raised in Pullman, Washington. She and her husband live now in the forests of northern California, where her pastimes include beekeeping. She is the author of the novels Into the Forest (Bantam Books, 1997), Windfalls (Atria, 2004) and Still Time (Arcade, 2015); as well as a book of nonfiction, The life within: celebration of a pregnancy (Humana, 1991). Into the Forest has been translated into a dozen languages, adapted as a film and a graphic novel.