Janet Sternburg (born January 18, 1943 in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American writer of essays, poetry and memoir, as well as a fine art photographer.
Sternburg is the editor of The Writer On Her Work, the first book of commissioned essays on what it means to be a contemporary woman who writes.
It has been continuously in print since 1980, and a twentieth anniversary edition was published by W.W.
Norton in 2000.
Sternburg lives in Los Angeles and San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.
Her most recent book is White Matter: A Memoir of Family and Medicine.