Page 325 - The 'X' Zone Directory of Who's Who : 2014 Edition

$" 3 4 )(" %+" -)+0 )# $)4, $) ... /1)("!%+" -)+0 2 )(("&& "!% )'* (0 '%&-)( (- +%) ( ! ... +"& ' + )' Bio : Born in Toledo, Ohio, the author, the eighth of nine children, moved to Detroit with her family at the age of three, and then, at 17, she moved alone to Houston, Texas. Her career as secretary to the Chairman of the Chemical Engineering Department at the University of Houston, three years as a legal secretary, and many more years as Vice President of Administration for a store planning firm, gave her many opportunities to hone her writing skills. Other than a few award winning works of poetry as a child, her book, Snippets from the Trenches, a mother's AIDS memoir, is her only published work, for which she was awarded a silver medallion by ForeWord Magazine at Book of the Year Expo in Los Angeles, in May 2008. []