Janice Rhoshalle Littlejohn is a career journalist whose work focuses on women’s issues, culture and media. Her work has appeared in the Associated Press, Los Angeles Times, USA Today, and Essence, among other publications. She is also a contributor to the James Gayles anthology, Reflections (Pochino Press, 2014), and co-author of Swirling: How to Date, Mate and Relate Mixing Race, Culture and Creed (Atria, 2012).

Drawing on themes from Swirling, her first script, Those People: A Love Story (formerly Lovers in Their Right Mind) was selected by the DreamAgo 2016 Plume & Pellicule international screenwriting atelier. Her work-in-progress documentary, “…but can she play?”: Blowing the Roof Off Women Horn Players and Jazz, has been twice recognized by Black Women in Jazz and the Arts Awards for raising awareness on the stories of jazzwomen instrumentalists.

Janice has a master’s degree from the University of Southern California. She earned her B.A. from Loyola Marymount University, where she taught journalism as an adjunct professor. She is a former Senior Editor for Los Angeles Review of Books and served as Director of the Los Angeles Review of Books / USC Publishing Workshop. She is currently Associate Director for the Los Angeles Institute for the Humanities.