Jamie Langston Turner

Jamie Langston Turner (born 1949) is a Christian novelist. Turner was born in Mississippi and currently teaches writing and poetry at Bob Jones University. Her novel A Garden to Keep won a 2002 Christy Award; her Winter Birds was named one of the "one hundred best books" of 2006 by Publishers Weekly.
 
Turner's novels were "loosely conceived as a series" and are all set in three fictional towns near Greenville in Upstate South Carolina.