Liquor a novel poppy z brite biography

I was born in New Orleans on May 25, 1967.

Liquor a novel poppy z brite biography

My parents are both from Kentucky, but my father had just received his first teaching job at the University of New Orleans, where he was a professor of economics until recently. My mother taught me to read by the time I was 3.

Before I could write, I was telling stories into tape recorders ("The Bad Mouse," released on CD by Gauntlet Press, still exists as evidence). By age 5, I was making booklets about bats, writing stories like "Attack of the Mud Monster," and trying to read The Bell Jar.

When I was 6, my parents split up and my mother and I moved to Chapel Hill, North Carolina, where I would live for thirteen years.

(My father stayed in New Orleans, and I came back to visit a lot, so it has always felt like home.) I never stopped writing, but around age twelve I became really serious about it and began sending out stories, usually to wildly inappropriate markets