I love to write fiction. I love to read fiction. Stories, characters, sentences, and words—I can't get enough of them. Some of my all-time favorite novels are: Peace Like a River by Leif Enger, The Shipping News by Annie Proulx, and Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens.

 

I'm also a pastor's wife, but I'm only so-so at the job. I don't sing or teach or host gatherings. Mainly I write and paint. I know a lot about church culture, though, and I've recently put that knowledge to work in my latest, yet-to-be-published novel called Under the Red Clay.