Gloria Teague

I was born in Tennessee, near the Smoky Mountains, a region abounding with natural beauty, the birthplace of country music and Jack Daniels whiskey (and obviously cute babies!). While I now live in another state, Tennessee is, and always will be, my home. You can take the girl out of the mountains but never, ever, and don't you even try, to take the mountains out of the girl...or decrepit old woman.

I won an essay contest when I was twelve. At the time I lived in France, thanks to being an Air Force brat. There were only ten winners across Europe and I was one of those ten. The winners got to go to a courtroom in their country and watch a day of trials with lunch at an outdoor cafe.That night as I lay in bed I had an epiphany. "I think of something, put it on paper, and someone I played with writing for the next several years. I never dreamed of submitting anything (no one told me about S.E. Hinton writing that killer book, The Outsiders, at the age of 16!) but I never stopped writing.

But I eventually stopped, allowing life to get in the way. I came to my senses and went back to writing in 1995.

I've had over five dozen short stories published in national magazines, as well as serial and holiday stories published in regional newspapers. I have a short story, "The Flying Saucer", published in the anthology Shades of Tulsa and I'm a contributing author to Book Marketing A to Z. In 2004 I won first place for a short story submitted to the OWFI conference contest in the confession category. I won first place in the America Nostalgia Prose category at the OWFI conference in May, 2005 for a short story created from a chapter in Saturday Night Cocoa Fudge. I won prizes for poetry and a Sci-Fi book in OWFI writing contest in 2008. It is my pleasure to be a member of Tulsa Nightwriters and have the honor of being the editor of NightScripts, the organization's newsletter. I'm also a member of Oklahoma Writers' Federation, Inc. (OWFI).I had a book released in November 2011 titled Safe in the Heart of a Miracle and will have a novel, Through the Shadows, released some time in the spring of 2012. I have two stories in the March issue of Worlds of Myth Magazine...and I'm just getting started!Tulsa NightWriters (newsletter editor)Oklahoma Writers' Federation, INC (former secretary) I have several published books that can be found on Amazon.