ABOUT JANE ROY BROWN

WRITING AND EDITING
I am a writer, editor, and landscape historian in Massachusetts. My writing has appeared in the Boston Globe, Bostonia, The Christian Science Monitor, Garden Design, Grist, Harvard Magazine, Landscape Architecture, Maine Times, Preservation, Vermont Life, and other publications. Since 2001 I have published more than 70 stories in the Boston Globe Travel section alone. I edited the 2003 Journal of the New England Garden History Society and held various editorial positions at AMC Outdoors, the member magazine of the Appalachian Mountain Club, from 1995 to 2004. The magazine won several national awards during this period, among them a 2004 Gold Award from the Society of National Association Publishers for one of my editor’s notes.

I co-authored a trade book, Insider’s Guide to Getting into Print for A/E/P & Environmental Consulting Firms (Natick, Mass.: Mark Zweig & Associates, 1994). An essay published in The Christian Science Monitor was included in a best-of anthology, The Home Forum Reader, in 1989. (The two latter projects and other writing between 1976 and 1998 appeared under my former name, Jane Brown Bambery.)

EDUCATION
I graduated from Middlebury College with a bachelors degree in comparative religion in 1975 and became a full-time professional writer in 1980, specializing in business-to-business scriptwriting and executive speeches for Fortune 500 corporations. With two partners, I established a small public relations firm, The IDPR Group, in 1990. I left the business in 1994 to write and edit for publications.
Entering Radcliffe Seminars (now the Landscape Institute at Arnold Arboretum) as a part-time student in 1992, I studied landscape-design history, completing the certificate program in 2001. As my final project, I documented Skylands, the private landscape in Seal Harbor, Maine, designed by Jens Jensen for Edsel and Eleanor Ford in 1926. I have lectured to garden clubs throughout Massachusetts on this topic.

CURRENT PROJECTS
I now work part-time as director of educational outreach at the Library of American Landscape History, a not-for-profit publishing organization in Amherst, Massachusetts, while continuing to write and edit articles for general readers and landscape architects, chiefly on travel and landscape. My husband, photographer and painter Bill Regan, often photographs for my articles.


Jane Roy Brown