Phyllis Pittman

degree in journalism, with an English minor, and a master’s in mass communication from the University of Southern Mississippi and has taken creative writing courses at USM. She has taught newswriting, copyediting, and newspaper layout and design at USM and William Carey University in Hattiesburg. She relocated to Fairhope in November of 2011 and, while still freelance editing, has turned her attention to fiction. She has written poetry, short stories, and a novel, The Trouble with Grits. Currently, she is working on short stories to be included in an anthology to be produced by the Fairhope Writers Group, and a new novel, Becoming Marianna. She will be relocating to a North Carolina near Blowing Rock to spend her retirement years writing, reading, learning, having adventures, and enjoying peace and harmony in the mountains.