Cinnamon Janzer

A smiling person of medium light skin tone, with dark brown shoulder length hair, a nose ring, and red lipstick wearing a red sweater.

Bio

Cinnamon Janzer is a Minneapolis-based freelance writer. Her journalism is dedicated to telling place-based stories from across the Great Plains. She specializes in solutions reporting and can be reached at cinnamon-janzer.com.

Recent Articles

Shakespeare Saw These Actors Through Prison and Onto Center Stage

May 2 2024

For Pharaoh Brooks and Dameion Brown, acting in prison offered an escape from the monotonous minutiae of daily life and created a path through life beyond bars.

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A Gratitude-Inspired Mural Brought This Community Together

April 16 2024

Ross Gay’s poetry book Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude spurred murals, conversations, and connection in this small Kentucky city.

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Inspired By a Book, These Artists Made a Planetarium Their Screen

March 11 2024

Two art films, one focused on land and another an homage to the sky, were inspired by Andrew Krivak’s The Bear.

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Cinnamon Janzer

Bio

Recent Articles

Shakespeare Saw These Actors Through Prison and Onto Center Stage

A Gratitude-Inspired Mural Brought This Community Together

Inspired By a Book, These Artists Made a Planetarium Their Screen