Janet Steele Holloway
Award winning Kentucky-based author and entrepreneur, Janet’s life credentials include teaching, theater production, public relations, youth worker and university instructor.
After sixteen years in small business development, in 1990 Janet started Women Leading Kentucky, Inc., a successful non-profit designed to create opportunities for women to lead, learn and give back to their communities. Women Leading Kentucky, Inc. has awarded over $200,000 in scholarships to promising young college women.
Upon retirement, writing became her passion, highlighting her upbringing in Appalachia and Virginia in books and poetry. She has been published in Silver Threads, Appalachian Heritage and West Virginia South. At 81, she published, Ain’t Nobody’s Business If I Do, a fictional autobiography, self-professed to be her last book.