Janice Deal

Janice Deal is an author of fiction whose work includes novels and short story collections. Her latest novel, The Blue Door, was published by New Door Books in 2025. She has earned the Moth Short Story Prize, the Cagibi Macaron Prize, and an Illinois Arts Council Artists Fellowship. Her novel The Sound of Rabbits came out from Regal House Publishing in 2023. Her earlier story collections include Strange Attractors, set in the fictional town of Ephrem, Illinois.