Lou Knight

Lou Knight lived in Kingsport, Tennessee, most of her life until moving to Canton, Georgia, where she resides with her husband, Mickey, and two Goldendoodles. After graduating from East Tennessee State University with a B.S. degree, she worked for thirty years in chemical manufacturing. Knight’s career started as a mechanical draftsman, but various opportunities led her to Corporate Communications, where she established her knack for writing, editing, and developing creative presentations.

Knight has always been a creator. A treehouse in her front yard was not allowed, so she turned her not-so-secret hiding place into a crude fort with a river rock floor and whittled woody weeds into arrows for her bow. To her parents’ dismay, she mowed a wicket-to-wicket pattern on the lawn for a neighborhood croquet tournament, and when her allowance wouldn’t afford a real dollhouse, she remodeled an old trunk into a bedroom suite with a built-in closet. In college, she built a scale model of a house she designed, trimming pinecone needles to represent cedar shakes for the mansard roof. Ten years later, she drew the plans and helped construct a real house, her dream home.

After retiring Knight’s need to create was satisfied by designing kitchens and putting a new spin on furniture and home décor. A chance visit to a writer’s group in her community rekindled her love of writing, so now she creates stories that highlight the excitement, adventure, and humor of daily life.