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About Georgiana Kotarski,
author of
Ghosts of the Southern Tennessee Valley
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Born in Coral Gables, Florida, to a musical mother and artist father, Georgiana
Chitko Kotarski grew up with a love of nature and the outdoors. She graduated from the
University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee, with a B.S. in forestry in 1976. In 1977,
she moved to Spangdalem, Germany, where she learned how to grow vegetables from her landlady and taught piano lessons on the side.
In 1983 she graduated from Kennesaw State University with a B.B.A. in accounting and returned to Chattanooga.
Georgiana then started a mail-order herb business and wrote her first article for a garden magazine.
From 1992 until 1997, she served as the director of the Chattanooga Area Food Bank. Now, she
directs the Sequatchie Valley campus of Chattanooga State Technical Community College.
Georgiana has written more than 40 articles for Flower & Garden, Weekend Gardener, Country-Extra,
Out Here, the Business Journal, Chattanooga Life &
Leisure, and Chattanooga on the Move. Ghosts of the Southern Tennessee Valley
is her first book. She plans to author a second ghost collection and is eager to investigate more area
haunts.
Georgiana lives in Dunlap, Tennessee, in a
120-year-old house she and her late husband Dan renovated themselves. She shares her farm
(the subject of the humorous memoir
she is now working on) with one donkey, Pancho; Farkle the duck and his flock;
Bossy the cow and her herd of 30 bovines; three dogs, including Sandy Ann, Rabbit Ann, and
Noodle;
two turkeys, Pearl and Earl, Jr.; a
cat;
and four hens.
Learn more about
Georgiana's Red Gates Farm
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