Nancy Owens Barnes
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Nancy Owens Barnes

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Award-winning author and freelance writer Nancy Owens Barnes' first book, a biographical travel memoir titled South to Alaska, was published as a trade paperback in October 2007, with a second edition published in 2009. She is also the author of a short anthology of nature essays and poetry titled Moose for Breakfast, as well as a brief guide for writers titled How to Swat the KILLER BEs Out of Your Writing. Barnes' writing has appeared in a number of magazines such as We Alaskans, Idaho Magazine, Northern Reach Magazine, and in literary journals such as The Lyric and Snowy Egret, the oldest independent journal of nature writing in the United States. She was featured in the Winter/Spring 2010 issue of Coeur d'Alene Magazine as one of nine North Idaho authors who have achieved acclaim for their work. In 2008 she received the Zola Award when her poetry won first place the Pacific Northwest Writers Association Literary Contest. Barnes received her Bachelor of Arts Degree from Vermont College of Norwich University where she studied creative writing. After spending her childhood and young adult years in eastern Oklahoma and western Arkansas, Barnes left for Alaska in 1973 where she lived more than 25 years, six of which she lived in an Inupiat village on the coast of the Arctic Ocean. She currently resides in northern Idaho.
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