A former ESL teacher, Janice has published many children's books including The Man Who Lived in a Hat (Hampton Roads Press, 2001), Totally Uncool (Carolrhoda Press, 1998), Abuelito Eats With His Fingers (Eakin Press, 1998), Abuelito Goes Home (McGraw Hill, 1995) and The Spirit of Tio Fernando (Albert Whitman and Co., 1995 and Scholastic),Cinco de Mayo: Let's Celebrate and Remembering Abuelito (Albert Whitman and Company, 2007). Her adult fiction has been widely published in anthologies and literary magazines, and she is a three time winner of the Writer's Digest Contest for Best Literary Short Story.
Janice lives with her husband and two children in Merrick, New York.