Janis Owens is a novelist, memoirist, folklorist and premier storyteller who enjoys sharing her experiences as a writer and native of old Florida. Born in Marianna in 1960, the last child and only daughter of an Assembly of God preacher who later became an insurance salesman, Owens attended the University of Florida, where she was a student of Harry Crews’ Creative Writing Workshop. Pat Conroy called her, “one of the finest novelists of our time."