About Jan

Jan Alexander is a ghostwriter, editor, journalist and fiction writer.

Her work explores the big questions that arise as geopolitics, technology, economics, and culture intersect and shape the way we live.

Business Writing

Through Klearstory Editorial Services, Jan provides ghostwriting, developmental editing, and consulting expertise for thought leaders in the business world and book authors at all levels of experience.

She has been a staff writer and editor at Strategy + Business, Institutional Investor, Worth, and Money. Her articles about international business, financial markets, management strategy, impact investing, societal trends and the personalities within the C-suite have also appeared in Forbes, the Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, the Economist Intelligence Unit, Directors & Boards and Robb Report.

Photo by Fred Gurner

Creative Writing

Jan’s second novel, Ms. Ming’s Guide to Civilization (Regal House), a Leapfrog Press Fiction Prize semi-finalist, presents a satirical meditation on shifting world power.

She is also the author of Getting to Lamma (Asia 2000) and co-author of Bad Girls of the Silver Screen (Carroll and Graf).

Her reviews, author interviews and fiction have appeared in Atticus, the Chicago Tribune, Guernica, the Ekphrastic Review, Flash Fiction, Everyday Fiction, Silver Birch Press, and 34th Parallel.