Biography;

Author; college instructor; television and radio producer-director.  Three children.  Education– University of Alabama at Birmingham, B.A. (1991), M.A. (1999); University of Alabama, Ph. D., 2010.  Instructor, Jefferson State Community College, 1999-2006; UAB, 1996-1999, University of Alabama, 2003-present. Wrote, produced, and directed public television programming for the University of Alabama Center For Public Television and Radio, 1999-2011.  Author of short stories and essays in journals and periodicals, as well  as books.  Awarded two Emmys and the Lincoln Unity Award for television productions.

Sources;

Website; Biographical information in Climbing Mt.Cheaha: Emerging Alabama Writers. Livingston Press, 2004.

Publications;

277 Things Every Arthritis Sufferer Should Know.  Live Oak Publishers, 1998.

An Accidental Memoir; How I Killed Someone and Other Stories.  New South Press, 2012.

Good Measure.  Tuscaloosa; Kapp and Braun House, 2005.

Editor;

Circling Faith; Southern Women on Spirituality.  Tuscaloosa; University of Alabama Press, 2012.

Joint-editor;

All out of Faith; Southern Women on Spirituality.  Fire Ant Books, 2007.