Janet Kravetz 

Janet Kravetz (sometimes writing under the pen name Topaz Ruby) is a Canadian (Nova Scotian) multi-award winning poet, author and screenwriter.  Some awards for Best Script include the International Mosaic Award (2024), Hollywood Storytellers Award (2024), Canadian Cinematography Award (2023), LA FEMME International Film Festival Award (2023), British Animation Film Festival's Lottie List (2024), Top 25 scripts of 2024 Save the Cat Script Competition etc.    

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Originally from Ukraine, Janet immigrated to Nova Scotia in 2009 and worked as a legal researcher and a policy analyst  while volunteering with various local committees for the promotion of diversity and inclusion.  

 

In 2013  her self-published book of poetry and art “Reaching Beyond Ourselves – Leading a Spiritual, peaceful and Diverse World” won the international Beverly Hills Book Awards for both content and presentation (under the pen name Topaz Ruby). In the following years Janet turned to writing more poetry, manuscripts and screenplays about topics of spirituality and environmental as well as AI sustainability. Her debut novel Sky Curse: The Chosen Five (Amazon, August 2022) won a November 2022 Literary Titan Silver Book Award and also two silver 2022 Global Book Awards.

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