M. G. King

I became a writer in the third grade, when my best friend started the illustrious Cat Courier and needed reporters to capture feline news around the Southern Indiana neighborhoods where we lived. We sold copies up and down the block for five cents each.

I've held a few jobs since then. I've been a camp counselor, English instructor in Japan, and a registered nurse who has worked critical care, transplant, and surgical recovery. The only job I've ever been fired from was my brief stint as a short order breakfast cook -- I've never been able flip fried eggs over easy without breaking the yolks.

Currently I work in the Lone Star College Writing Center in Houston, Texas. I live with my husband and two sons, a Labrador named Bowzer and a cat named Mews, who all keep me laughing. None of them doubt my talents as a short order cook. (It helps that they don't like fried eggs). We spend a lot of time looking for lost keys and homework assignments under the books that clutter our house.