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Janis Faye Kearney grew up in rural Arkansas, the daughter of cotton sharecroppers. The author and publisher writes about hers and other southerners' lives through short stories, memoir, autobiography, biography, and fiction. She has been writing all her life, but began her writing life in earnest in 2001. Janis attended and graduated from the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville with a B.A. in Journalism. She credits Arkansas Poet Millier Williams, Civil rights leader Daisy Gatson Bates, and her father TJ Kearney for the path she chose to write stories in hopes of changing the world. Janis served as publisher of the historical Arkansas State Press founded by civil rights legends Daisy Gatson Bates and L.C. Bates, and as Personal Diarist to America's 42nd President William J. Clinton. In 2014, after the death of literary icon Maya Angelou, she founded the Celebrate! Maya Project, a 501.C.3 nonprofit, which serves as a bridge for young people in search of their own voices, and a forum for youth to learn their history and create their own stories, through writing workshops, literary competition, and public forums. Janis was inducted into the Arkansas Writers Hall of Fame in 2016, and in 2014, received the prestigious University of Arkansas Lemke Journalism Award. She resides in Little Rock, Arkansas with her husband Bob Nash, and their dog, Phynx, She is the proud mother of her son DK, grandmother of four and great-grandmother to two.