I grew up in the South in a family full of characters, and have been telling stories about them ever since.

In college, I even won some writing awards for my stories—at one festival Eudora Welty, her own self, told me she “liked my story”!—but since I didn’t know how to go about being a writer, after I graduated, I took a job at a wilderness camp for troubled teens in the East Texas piney woods. That did not work out.

Back in civilization, I fell in love with theatre and went on to work as a writer, actor, director, teacher, singing telegram messenger, dancing cake, clown, and Dr. Ruth impersonator. I have toured as an artist-in-residence developing new works and performing my own across America in garden spots like Eureka, Nevada; Canadian, Texas; Martinsville, Virginia; and Grand Island, Nebraska. I created The Girl Project, a summer theatre program for girls; I co-wrote and toured with The CowPattys, an a capella C&W vaudeville show, and wrote and performed my own one-woman show Goin’ to Georgia as a Texas Touring Artist. It’s been a hustle.

Life is good.