![]() ![]() I spent my high school years writing short stories and dark poetry for high school publications throughout the district, like Inklings and Lodestar. When I was in the 8 th grade, my teacher sent one of my poems to Read Magazine without telling me, and one day I got an envelope with the magazine in the mail from my teacher saying, “You are a published writer!” That was awesome. I also had a book from when I was 8 years old in the library called Brother and Puppy, and when I got it back, I looked at the “check out card” and saw that my own little brother had checked it out more than anyone else. The books were added to my elementary school’s library for other children to check out. When I was 9, I won the Young Author’s Contest with a parable of Why Rabbits Have Short Tails, and when I was 10, I won with a book about aliens called Rainbow on West Avenue. ![]() I read Island of the Blue Dolphins when I was 7 years old and it sparked the fire in my spirit for fiction. Eventually, my bad back made it impossible to hold little ones and I turned to old passions … and I’ve always been a writer. I spent many years as Childcare Director at churches in Montana, and Denver, and then in Kansas. ![]() I actually went to MU as an early childhood education student, learning to teach children in Kindergarten through third grade. I was recently asked by an interviewer how it came about that I majored in Creative Writing at the University of Missouri. ![]()
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