Press Kit
Short Bio
Gianaclis’s (gee-on-a-klees) debut upmarket speculative novel, The Binding, received a Kirkus Reviews: Our Verdict, Get it. Raised in the wilds of Oregon communing with trees, she’s best known for her non-fiction titles on cheese and dairy farming (including Holistic Goat Care and Mastering Artisan Cheesemaking, ForeWord Magazine Book of Year: Gold Winner, Reference, and IACP finalist). She’s a member of The Authors Guild, Alliance of Independent Authors, and Willamette Writers. When not buried in a book or tapping the keyboard, Gianclis teaches ballet, sips bourbon, and still talks to trees.
Long Bio
Gianaclis’s (gee-on-a-klees) debut upmarket speculative novel, The Binding, received a Kirkus Reviews: Our Verdict, Get it. Raised in the wilds of Oregon communing with trees, she’s best known for her non-fiction titles on cheese and dairy farming (including Holistic Goat Care and Mastering Artisan Cheesemaking, ForeWord Magazine Book of Year: Gold Winner, Reference, and IACP finalist). She’s a member of The Authors Guild, Alliance of Independent Authors, and Willamette Writers. When not buried in a book or tapping the keyboard, Gianaclis teaches ballet, sips bourbon, and still talks to trees.
Taking no chances reincarnation might not be real, Gianaclis has been a nurse, farrier, fine art printmaker, architect, foster/adoptive/birth mom, cheesemaker, goat farmer, and always a writer. She “published” a hand-written newspaper in her early teens complete with fake articles, puzzles, and jokes (can we all say dork?) and started the novel she hopes no one will ever find, in her 20s. After the nomadic life as a military spouse she and her husband returned to Oregon and started their artisan cheese business on Gianaclis’s family land, once the home of the Takelma people.
If you’re wondering what exotic meaning her Greek family name translates to, it’s Johnson.
