Bio

 Short Fiction Published (in addition to her short story collection)

After many years of living in California, Janie returned to the North Georgia to live close to the family farm and Taylor's Ridge. When not writing, she and her husband enjoy caring for their horses on the farm.

Photo: David Albanese

A native of Chattanooga, Tennessee, Janie Dempsey Watts has strong roots there and in Ringgold, Georgia where she spent much of her childhood on horseback.  She holds journalism degrees from the University of California, Berkeley and the University of Southern California. In addition to her novel Moon Over Taylor's Ridge, she has been published in newspapers and magazines. She also authored five screenplays. Her stories have been published in Christian Science Monitor, Guideposts, the Chicken Soup for the Soul series, and in Georgia Backroads Magazine. For nine years, she was a columnist for Catoosa Life Magazine.

Janie's current emphasis is fiction, and she is the author of two novels, a short story collection, and a children's picture book.