Janet Holloway is an award-winning Kentucky-based author and entrepreneur. Her career has spanned a broad and varied base. Janet has worked as a high school Spanish and English teacher, been in theatre production in New York City and worked with youth in East Harlem. In 1990 after a period of working for local government in Lexington, Kentucky, she started her own enterprise, Women Leading Kentucky, a non-profit that continues to this day providing leadership opportunities, empowerment support, and scholarships for women attending Kentucky colleges or universities.
Having written and published two previous books, both memoirs; Willful Child (2012) and, Leaving: Sometimes You Just Have to Leave (2017) she has recently published her third book, Ain’t Nobody’s Business if I Do, a collection of short stories that are all loosely interconnected. “At once intimate and sweeping, Holloway sketches the saga of a twentieth-century Appalachian family with richly rendered spot-on dialogue and closely observed detail.”
In this episode I talk with Janet about her new book, at times with a nod to her previous publications, her life growing up in a rich but unconventional world in the hills and hollers of West Virginia, and her ever present matriarchal grandmother Billie, to whom Janet gives much credit for whom, where and what she is today.
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