Janet Beard

Janet Beard is the author of The Atomic City Girls, published by William Morrow. Born and raised in East Tennessee, she earned an MFA in creative writing from The New School. She currently lives and writes in Columbus, Ohio.

She Wrote a Novel About Nuclear Terror—Could It Come True?

FORESHADOWING

A story about the people who built the atomic bomb seemed like historical fiction, but the escalating rhetoric between Trump and North Korea drags the issue into the present.

Janet Beard | Published Feb 17, 2018