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Jac Winters

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Born

in Canada

Website

https://jacwinters.com/

Genre

Poetry, Memoir, Contemporary

Influences

Ernest Hemingway, Robert Frost, Monica B, Alexander Pushkin

Member Since

September 2025

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https://www.goodreads.com/wwwjacwinterscom

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Born into a Dutch farming family and shaped by decades spent crossing North America’s backroads and interstates,

Jac Winters writes from a life marked by endurance, quiet observation, and the long work of becoming whole. Canadian‑born and now settled in Green Bay, Wisconsin,

Jac carries the landscapes of both countries in his voice — the fields, the highways, the people met along the way.

His writing began as a private act of survival, a way to make sense of the early wounds that followed him into adulthood.

That impulse became To Say Goodbye Again, a poetry collection that sketches the emotional terrain of his youth. Its final poem,

Princess opens a door that leads directly into his memoir, Shadows, Roads, & Redemption, where the boy behind ...more

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	Shadows, Roads, & Redemption: A Memoir by Jac Winters (Goodreads Author), Jessica Silva (Illustrator) 4.84 avg rating — 63 ratings — published 2026 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	To Say Goodbye Again 4.88 avg rating — 41 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Jactionary: Where Language ends, feeling begins. by Jac Winters (Goodreads Author), Hannah Collins (Illustrator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“What’s Inside Jactionary: A Reader’s Guide”

Hello everyone!

Jactionary — Poems and Prose from a Life Fully Lived is currently in pre‑order phase. Release date October 15th (Hardcover), paperback and eBook.

I know it's early and we just released Shadows, Roads, & Redemption — A Memoir. But the last nine years of work have all culminated into launching my writing career, and I am enjoying every day.

I also really appreciate how so many wonderfu Read more of this blog post »

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Jac Winters made a comment on Christi Ford’s review of Shadows, Roads, & Redemption: A Memoir " Christi, all the years of sitting in the dark just to find you in the light is a beautiful thing. Thank you is not enough. Wishing you peace and clari ...more "
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Jac Winters liked God'S Will's review of Shadows, Roads, & Redemption: A Memoir: "This book found me at exactly the right time. The description says it’s "a voice saying, you don’t have to walk it alone," and that is precisely what it felt like to me. Jac Winters shares a story of carrying a heavy, secret weight, and his ability t" Read more of this review »
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Jac Winters liked Christi Ford's review of Shadows, Roads, & Redemption: A Memoir: "I finished this book in a single sitting, but I feel like I'll be unpacking it for a very long time. Jac Winters has done something remarkable here. He’s taken the messy, confusing, and often ugly realities of a difficult childhood and held them up t" Read more of this review »
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“In the quiet of my thoughts, I weave narratives that lift the heart and honor the human spirit." -jW”
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“Perfection is a hobbyist’s disease.
Momentum is a working writer’s oxygen.”
― Jac Winters, Jactionary: Where Language ends, feeling begins.

tags: create, dream, encourage, family, human-record, invent, live, overcome, spectrum, work

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“You are not here to fit in—you’re here to stand out, speak up, and shine. Your story has power. Own it."

Cathy Warshaw, Author of the Sisterhood Sleuths*”
― Cathy Warshaw

tags: teen-fiction, teen-mystery-and-suspense

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“Our stories, messy as they are, can become the very things that heal, connect, and set us free." -”
― Camille Barnes

tags: adoption, adoption-story, christian-life, christian-living, family-relationships, life

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“I spent years searching for where I came from, only to discover that my truest identity had been held safely in God’s hands all along.”
― Camille Barnes

tags: adoption-story, christian-living, memoir, memoir-writing, true-stories-books

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“Some roads don’t lead you forward—they lead you back through everything you tried to forget, until the truth finally teaches you how to keep walking.”
― Camille Barnes

tags: adoption

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“A word after a word after a word is power.”
― Margaret Atwood

tags: reading, writing

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