Gloria Taylor Weinberg is a fourth-generation Floridian who retired from a 22-year career as a journalist

with the Fort Pierce Tribune in 2001. She now writes for Indian River Magazine, based in Fort Pierce,Florida, where she has lived for the past 47 years.

Gloria’s debut novel, “A Homicide in Hooker’s Point,” is set in 1950 and tells a story of life, love and

tragedy in the small community of Hooker's Point, south of Clewiston, Florida, the author's hometown. It earned a

Royal Palm Literary Award from the Florida Writers Association in 2011 and autographed copies are now available from the author by contacting her at [email protected]. It is also available in print or ebook from Amazon.com and Barnes&Noble.com.

Gloria's novella, "Child of Sorrow," is based on a true story of one 17-year-old's experience in a home for unwed mothers in 1959. It was a finalist for a 2013 Royal Palm Literary Award from the Florida Writer's Association. Autographed copies are available from her, and paperback and Kindle versions are available on Amazon.com, Barnes&Noble and other online vendors.

During Gloria's newspaper career, she won numerous awards from the Florida Society of Newspaper Editors and the Florida Society of Professional Journalists.

When she retired, Weinberg was the Tribune’s Projects Editor. She alsowrote a Sunday column and a weekly feature called “Tributes,” which won the Florida Society of Professional Journalists’ first place award for excellence in 2000.

Gloria's Sunday columns won awards from the Florida Society of Newspaper Editors from 1996 to 1999. In 2000,she led the team that earned the FSNE’s first place award for a five-day series of stories on the Indian River. The series also took the FSNE’s Gold Medal for Public Service and won first place for excellence from the FSPJ.

Before she became a writer, Weinberg was a firearms instructor at Indian River Community College Police Academy in Fort Pierce while competing in state and U.S. Regional Police Combat matches.

She has been married for 29 years to Mark Weinberg, the public information officer for the St. Lucie County Sheriff's Office.

Gloria also paints, specializing in capturing the flora, fauna and unique light of her native state in oils on canvas.