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Shirley D. Jones
The author is a graduate of East Carolina University and retired from the Department of Health and Human Services of North Carolina. She has been writing poetry since the first grade in Roxboro, NC...ver maisThe author is a graduate of East Carolina University and retired from the Department of Health and Human Services of North Carolina. She has been writing poetry since the first grade in Roxboro, NC. Many of her inspirations come from growing up on a tobacco farm in Person County. Now living in Laurinburg, NC, she’s a member of the NC Poetry Society. She has received honorable mention from the Fields of Earth Symposium of the Writers’s Ink Guild of Fayetteville. She wrote, The Rocking Chair, a column published in The Lumberton Post in 1977-78. She was published in the Phoenix, a literary magazine of Scotland High School, and in Leaves of Green: The Collard Poems sponsored by the Ayden Collard Festival. Her poems were included in Summer Carpenters, a poetry booklet compiled from a creative writing class taught by Ron Bayes and Grace Gibson, at Pembroke University. She is the author of A Charge to Keep: The History of Caledonia United Methodist Church, which was awarded Special Recognition in the History Book Award by the North Carolina Society of Historians. One of her poems has recently been published in Gravity Hill, a literary magazine of St. Andrews College. She is the proud mother of two grown sons and one grandson. She has a coon hound dog and two cats. When she is not writing, she enjoys photography, reading, traveling and crafts.ver menos