Charlene Rose Johnson is a much published writer, a former magazine editor, staff writer and column writer.
Her work has appeared in over 30 publications and she has two books to her credit so far. Several other book projects are completed or near completion.
She has won many awards for her writing and is a member of professional writing organizations such as the Outdoor Writers Association of America and the Florida Outdoor Writers Association
Charlene R. Johnson grew up in the Northwest with a fascination for Native American
cultures and a love of nature and animals. She was raised the daughter of a minister
in Idaho who also worked at Fort Hall. There she was exposed at an early age to the
beliefs and traditions of the Shoshone-Bannock Native Americans. For the rest of
her life, she would be heavily involved in and a keen student of the philosophy and
lifeways of indigenous people. She practices Native American beliefs and is also
a lover and student of nature. In the Florida Park Service, she does a living history
of the first natives of Florida who no longer exist in this realm, and who she and
others consider the Forgotten People. She is determined that we not forget.
She believes
that everything is alive and that if more believed it, the Earth and all things on
it would be treated with more respect. She is now giving back to the Earth, after
years of enjoying it by working in the Florida Park Service as an educator and trainer.
And in her “spare time,” she does her astrology, writing and Avatar.
Charlene has
led many lives in this one; one as a dive instructor, a boat captain, 20 years in
the thoroughbred industry and a museum director. She is always a birder, a camper
and hiker, a kayaker, an ecologist and sailor! Charlene lives with her Moluccan cockatoo,
Halo on a lake in central Florida.
Copyright 2008 Charlene Johnson
