Jean Defreese Moore

Jean DeFreese Moore began her fictional writing journey with a home school project involving her then thirteen-year-old granddaughter. What was meant to be a brief undertaking, God has now turned into a multi-year adventure.

Jean received her Bachelor or Fine Arts degree from Louisiana Tech University. She spent her career in the media relations office of the athletic department at LaTech where she was able to use her talent in desktop publishing and graphic design.

Her writing began in high school where she was awarded membership into Quill and Scroll, a National Honor Society for high school journalists. She continued her writing as a contributor to her hometown newspaper.

Jean researched and completed a collection of stories on the DeFreese family history, dating as far back as pre-revolution in American history and into Europe pre-reformation. She has completed nine books in “A Father’s Love” series, a historical Christian series focused on the Britt family beginning pre-American Civil War, and moving into the twentieth century.

Jean is also an accomplished artist. She was one of many contributing artists to paint the entry hall mural at the Lincoln Parish Historical Museum, housed in the Kidd-Davis home built in 1886. She also served as set designer for a dance academy and taught art at a private Christian school.

Her exhibition, The Life of Jesus in Acrylic Pour, was shown in four separate venues in her hometown of Ruston, Louisiana. These paintings were part of the exhibit Risen: An Easter Celebration which opened the week of the COVID-19 lockdown. The exhibit was quickly changed to an online exhibit and was viewed over 31k on social media and 1.2k in video form. The Jesus paintings were also a part of the exhibit, Artfinds.

Jean is ‘retired’ but she’s really not. She is involved daily with her seven grandchildren. Along with her paintings and writing, she is involved in her church’s children’s ministry, a community Bible study, her local ‘Painting with Prayer’ ministry, and with the local Community Men’s Shed (yes, she actually built a set of bunk beds).

Jean believes that “God created mankind in his image.” If God’s nature is to create, to make things; and if we have created in his image, then we were created to make things, to create, to build, to invent, too. Because we are made in God’s image, we will create.