Janet Peery (born July 18, 1948, in Wichita, Kansas) is an American short story writer and novelist.
Before she took up writing fiction in her forties, Janet Peery worked at a series of odd jobs, including waiting tables, fast food counter work, lifeguarding and teaching swimming, as a speech therapist, a hospital respiratory technician, and an insurance physical technician.
She taught at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, where she was awarded the honorific University Professor and was the recipient of the Outstanding Faculty Award from the State Council of Higher Education in Virginia.
Program for Writers, Antioch University LA, Sweet Briar College, Glen Workshop at Ghost Ranch, New Mexico, Sewanee Writers Conference and other conferences.
She has served as Writer in Residence for the National Book Foundation's American Voices Project on the Rosebud Reservation in Mission, South Dakota and Rocky Boy's Reservation in Montana.