Janice Obuchowski

11/04/2025 18 min

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Janice Obuchowski, a 1998 English graduate from Cornell's College of Arts and Sciences, sang in the Cornell Chorus and After Eight. Her time in these groups, including a memorable senior tour to Taiwan, shaped her love for music and collaboration. Now the author of The Woods, winner of the Iowa Short Fiction Award, Janice has served as a fiction editor for the New England Review and is an assistant editor at Conjunctions. She has taught writing at the University of Vermont and Middlebury College, where she lives in Middlebury, Vermont. She encourages current members to embrace their musical journey, as its lessons can resonate for a lifetime.

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