Encore is a collection of ninety-nine select poems about life, nature, romance, tributes, & gratitude. Johns passionately addresses the human condition, eg. hunger, gun violence, prejudice, women's empowerment, etc.
Zaneta Varnado Johns, aka Zan Johns, is an award-winning, 4-time bestselling author. Publications include: Poetic Forecast (2020), After the Rainbow (2022), and the What Matters Journal (2023). Johns is a contributing author in the Women Speakers Association's #1 international bestsellers Voices of the 21st Century (2021, 2022, 2023). Her poems are featured as the Dedication page in these collaborative books.Johns co-edited Social Justice Inks anthology (2022) with publisher and poet Lisa Tomey-Zonneveld. She serves as an editor for the Fine Lines Literary Journal and administrator for the Passion of Poetry, a revered online platform for emerging and esteemed poets. She is a Pushcart Nominee in Poetry and a USA Contributor in the Russian Guinness World Record Hyperpoem. Her poems appear in nearly seventy anthologies and international literary publications. Believing that every word shared is an opportunity to love, Johns' writing offers hope as she stirs the reader's consciousness about life and living. Johns is a retired human resources leader who spent her twenty-nine-year career at the University of Colorado. She was recognized in 2007 as one of the University of Colorado's Women Who Make a Difference. Johns resides in Westminster, Colorado, USA.
