Janet Taliaferro
Novelist. Poet. Short Story Writer & Activist.
Janet Taliaferro holds a BA from Southern Methodist University and an MA in Creative Studies from the University of Central Oklahoma where she received the Geoffrey Bocca Memorial Award for excellence.
This memoir chronicles her life and times, often at the center of key political and cultural events. Her novel, A Sky for Arcadia, was a finalist in the Oklahoma Center for the Book Award in 2001. She published another novel, two historical romances, two collections of short stories, and a chapbook of poetry. Two of her short stories were first place award winners in the Northen Virginia Review, and selections of her poetry have been published in small magazines.
Janet lives in Ashburn, Virginia, in the winter, and summers in Northern Wisconsin.