I grew up in a small town in Kentucky called Hopkinsville.  The locals call it Hop Town, presumably because you could hop from one end to the other quickly.  Legends of haunted woods (the well-known Bell Witch was miles away) and Indian burial grounds shaped my imagination from an early age.

My mother grew up in a small shack, and to this day, she and her siblings tell stories of seeing a headless Indian woman caring a baby on her chest, about a dark man perched on a single fence post, staring with no eyes, and of long chains being pulled across the gravel road by no one at all.

Those stories have shaped my writing throughout my life, as I’ve have written speculative fiction for several years.  I’d always been interested in the dark, the supernatural; checking out books on vampires, witches, ghost and the like at the school library. Trying to research all of the true stories and information I could find about such things. 

Since I began writing again in 2001, my work has been published more than forty times.  I have several articles appearing in the African American National Biography published by Harvard University and Oxford University Press.  I received the 2003 Twilight Tales Award for fiction and an honorable mention in The Year’s Best Fantasy and Science Fiction: 18th Annual Edition. 

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