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Jac Winters

Goodreads Author

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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Average rating: 4.88 · 122 ratings · 128 reviews · 4 distinct works • Similar authors

	Shadows, Roads, & Redemption: A Memoir by Jac Winters (Goodreads Author), Jessica Silva (Illustrator) 4.85 avg rating — 65 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 — 42 ratings — published 2026 — 5 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
	Jactionary: Where Language ends, feeling begins. it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 15 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
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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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Published on August 12, 2026 12:09 • Tags: adjacent, memoir, neurodivergent-voices, poetry, prose

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“In the quiet of my thoughts, I weave narratives that lift the heart and honor the human spirit." -jW”
― Jac Winters

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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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Jac’s Quotes

“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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