Janis Owens was born in a small town in the Florida panhandle, the daughter of a preacher-turned-insurance-salesman whose job took his family to live in New Orleans and Hattiesburg, Mississippi, before returning to north Florida. The author was greatly influenced by her grandmother, a poet and noted reformer in Marianna, Florida, who raised her on storytelling—everything from Bible stories to Aesop’s fables. She earned a degree in English with a specialization in Southern history at the University of Florida and continues to reside in rural north Florida with her husband and three daughters.
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