Joyce G. Sells
The renowned Joyce Green Sells wrote her first poem in the fourth grade. Naturally, she followed this with two more poems and a continuing short story saga while in high school, which her study hall classmates voraciously followed. As a college adult, she contributed poems to the school paper and poems and articles to local news publications. The American Poetry Association, The International Society of Poets, The New York Poetry Association, and Drury Press were others who published her work. A short story published by Drury Press entitled "The Best Kept Secret." Based on information from a pharmaceutical company she worked for at the time and how AIDS entered the human population.
Conversely, Sells received a cash award for her poem "Summer Song," which she presented to the International Society of Poets at a convention in Crystal City, VA. Consequently, she heard sayings regarding the cash prize that she had become a professional poet for fifty dollars. Nevertheless, Sells recalls this particular event's weather as one of the hottest August summer days she can remember, prompting her to write a poem entitled "Our Christmas" while she was there.
Joyce Green Sells conception in Franklin, Tennessee; born in Pensacola, Florida, and grew up in Birmingham, Alabama, the daughter of Elbert Paul Green and Ellen Rebekah Chandler. While in Birmingham, she attended the University of Alabama for twelve months, earning a certification in Respiratory Therapy. While at UAB, she joined the Alabama Army National Guard with the rank of E5 Respiratory Specialist and was recognized for her sharpshooting abilities.
Working at South Highlands Hospital, she met and married Haskell Lee Sells, II, and returned to his home state of North Carolina and her four children from her previous marriage. There she graduated from nursing school with a Nationals ranking. After that, Sells worked at several hospitals in Duke CCU, where she worked as a cardiac care nurse/respiratory therapist. She later earned a BA in Health Psychology from Graceland University in Lamoni, Iowa.
Accordingly, her hobbies include photography; gardening; her pets; genealogy, music, antagonizing her Facebook friends; reading; watching movies, and studying ballroom dancing. Additionally, Sells holds a Blue Belt in Tae Kwon Do.
Past and present memberships include the Raleigh Chapter of the National Organization for Women; and The National Organization for Women; The American Poetry Association; The International Society of Poets; The North Carolina Association of Respiratory Therapy, The American Association of Respiratory Therapy; North Carolina Nurses Association; the American Nurses Association; the American Psychological Association; the Triangle Real Estate Investors Association and the NRA.
Furthermore, Sells is co-founder and President of Think Medical, Inc. in Raleigh, NC. Moreover, she is listed as a "noteworthy medical products company executive, nurse" by Marquis Who's Who; Who's Who of American Women; Who's Who of American Leaders, and Who's Who in the South and Southeast.
Don't mention you read it here; however, Joyce Sells is currently in the throes of writing her first novel. Joyce lives in Raleigh, North Carolina, with her husband and two cats and continues to write. Furthermore, Sells is working on her book Things That I Never Said; the poetry volume of her work's expected release remains tentative; however, it's speculated that it will be sometime in early 2023. See a few samples on preview pages as a teaser of what to expect from this beautiful poetist writer.
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