ABOUT JANIE

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 novels Moon Over Taylor's Ridge and Return to Taylor's Crossing, she has been published extensively 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.

A master storyteller, Janie is the author of two novels (Moon Over Taylor's Ridge and Return to Taylor's Crossing), two short story collections (Mostly True and Mothers, Sons, Beloveds, and Other Strangers), and a children's picture book titled, Pap Pap Goes to Paris: And So Does Ricky!