Phyllis Pittman

PHYLLIS PITTMAN is a former journalist, feature writer, travel writer, and humor columnist. She has written for newspapers in her home state of Mississippi as well as for online magazines and other publications. She has also worked as a professional copyeditor for more than 25 years, editing both scholarly and literary works.

Pittman holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism, with an English minor, and a master’s in mass communication, and has taken creative writing courses from the University of Southern Mississippi. She has taught newswriting, copyediting, and newspaper layout and design at USM and William Carey University in Hattiesburg, Miss.

She currently lives in the quaint and artsy town of Fairhope, Ala., technically a utopian-styled single tax colony on Mobile Bay. She left the world of journalism to pursue her love of fiction. She is a co-author of the short-story collection, "Fairhope Anthology: Second in a Series," and is the author of "Pony Tales: Night Mischief," a children's read-along picture book. She recently completed her first novel, "The Trouble with Grits."