Janis Bultman is the author of Legacies: Interviews with Masters of Photography from Darkroom Photography Magazine—a Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2018.

Her work has appeared in Forbes, Rolling Stone Press, Darkroom Photography, Photo District News, American Photographer, Super-8 Filmaker, Moving Image, Arts Metro, Buddy, The Sun, San Jose Studies, Pacific Review, Belletrist Review, Eureka Literary Magazine, and elsewhere.

A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, she is also recipient of a New Jersey Arts Council Fellowship for Fiction and a Pushcart Prize nominee.

Bultman grew up in San Jose, California, and lived in Berkeley, Los Angeles, New York City, Chicago, New Jersey, London, and Portland, Oregon, before settling—perhaps temporarily—in Eastern Iowa where she teaches writing and literature at Kirkwood Community College and Mount Mercy University.