About Nancy Owens Barnes: Author of South to Alaska.

A Remarkable Journey from the Heartland of America to the Heart of a Dream

About the Author

Nancy Owens Barnes was born in Muskogee, Oklahoma, and raised on a small farm east of Fort Gibson, eventually moving with her family to Arkansas where she lived in Greenwood, then later Hartford, Arkansas. After watching her parents' dream weave its way through the lives of her family, she boarded the Red Dog for the first leg of its journey along the Arkansas and Mississippi Rivers. After the Red Dog's arrival in Alaska in 1973, she relocated to Alaska where she lived twenty-five years before moving to northern Idaho in 1999.

After attending Arkansas Tech and the University of Alaska, Barnes received a Bachelor of Arts Degree from Vermont College of Norwich University where she studied creative writing. Her writing has been published in a number of magazines and literary journals, such as We Alaskans, Idaho Magazine, Northern Reach, The Lyric, and Snowy Egret, the oldest independent journal of nature writing in the United States.

Barnes is the author of three books and is a member of the Pacific Northwest Writers Association.

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Nancy Owens Barnes

Coeur d'Alene Magazine (Winter-Spring 2010) featured Nancy Owens Barnes as one of nine North Idaho writers who have gained acclaim
for their work.

Received Zola Award as First Place winner in the 2008 Pacific Northwest Writers Association Literary Contest, Poetry Category

Winner of the Idaho Writers League 2007 Jessie Cameron Alison Writer of the Year Award