Janet Vrba is a creative non-fiction writer but began her career as a staff writer for a county newspaper in Iowa. Her recent articles have appeared in the Half Moon Bay Review, Light & Life Magazine, and Changing Tides—an online community newsletter for Half Moon Bay High School where she serves as editor. Her work has published on Joyce Meyer Ministries website and her inspirational article on faith was selected for the upcoming Inspire Faith anthology. Vrba studied at The Writer’s Studio at Stanford and developed her craft in the Apprentice program with the Christian Writer’s Guild.

 Vrba knows that words have the power to change and heal lives. Words written over two thousand years ago pierced her heart and prompted her spiritual journey when she read Socrates, “An unexamined life is not worth living.”

Growing up in a household without any faith in God, her twenties confronted her with existential questions, such as, Is there a God? Does my life really matter? Journal writing proved to be a therapeutic tool for self-discovery and healing as she dug through the layers of a painful past and found the truth that would set her free. Journaling also birthed her desire to help other hurting people through writing. Vrba experienced her spiritual conversion while living and teaching in the Czech Republic.

Vrba feels called to her Czech roots and is writing a historical fiction novel on the life of Jan Hus, a martyred Czech priest who desired the truth of God’s Word to prevail in the lives of all believers and inspired his nation during a dark time of church history. Her recent article Meeting Jan Hus in Praha appeared in Naše Rodina—a Czechoslovak Genealogical Society International publication.

Also a poet, Vrba enjoys living in Half Moon Bay and can be found at local open mic poetry readings in and around her community.