Author of true crime novel on which "To Live and Die in Dixie" is based. Career as a paid professional liar writing for TV, advertising and political campaigns making skunks smell like roses. Elected an unemployed preacher to Senator.
First poem published in Baptist Bulletin at age 11. Censured at age 13 for suggesting congregation say AWomen instead of Amen. Drop-Out of Southern Belle Hell and Obedience School. Blessed with plethora of stories from being born Southern in dysfunctional family of nine.
B.A. English-Creative Writing University of Louisiana at Monroe. Novel studies in Dublin, London and Taos. Award winning fiction writer, journalist, essayist and poet. Over 40 publications in magazines, syndicated newspapers, historical books, anthologies and competitions. Editor and Co-Editor of two university literary magazines.