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Janis Owens is a novelist, memoirist, folklorist and storyteller. She is a native of old Florida, born in Marianna in 1960. She attended public school, and the University of Florida, where she was a student of Harry Crews’ Creative Writing Workshop and earned a degree in English with a minor in Southern history.
She is active in Florida conservation, oral history, historic preservation and dedicated to the celebration and preservaton of small town Florida life. She is by trade a writer, and the award-winning author of MY BROTHER MICHAEL, winner of the Chautauqua South Fiction Award for Best Novel, MYRA SIMS, THE SCHOOLING OF CLAYBIRD CATTS, and THE CRACKER KITCHEN.
Her next novel, AMERICAN GHOST, will be published in October with Scribner.
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Feeling the Earth Move Under My Feet (thanks, Tropical Storm Debby)
After years of worrying with drought and regularly beseeching the Lord for rain, the Big Bend of Florida has had its prayers answered on the scale of an Old Testament Prophet. In the space of five short days we’ve had a Noah-like deluge thanks to TS Debby, with all the attendant floods, toppled trees and the greatest natural bugaboo of all: the Dreaded Sinkhole. Click here to continue...
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Tagged Devil's Millhopper, Janis Owens, sinkhole, Tropical Storm Debby
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