A Bit About Me

I’m Cinnamon Janzer, a freelance writer based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. I find reality to be significantly stranger than fiction. I’m enchanted by place and fascinated by people and culture—how we survive, thrive and move through this world individually and collectively. The periphery is always more interesting and inspiring than the center. I speak English and Spanish.

I lived around the country and the world, from Nicaragua to New York City, before making Minneapolis home. Once upon a time I was an editor of Impact Design Hub (R.I.P.), a digital publication producing leading coverage of design’s social impact. Today I work with Empowerment Avenue to help edit and publish incarcerated writers. I also mentor emerging journalists through the Solutions Journalism Network.

That said, I find wage labor, careerism and insufficiently regulated market economy capitalism to be wildly inequitable and antithetical to a meaningful life. I spend as much time as possible surfing in México, enjoying good food around the Twin Cities, and tending to the tallgrass prairie that encircles the cozy home I share with my darling husband, our convivial collie mix and a fat cat who refuses to answer to either of her two names.