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2025 Eyelands Book Awards Finalist
2025 BookFest Silver Award - Fiction & YA
2024 Fiction Award, Writers of Kern
2024 Presenter, WOK, Pull it Out of Your Life!
2002 Beginning Writer Award, Santa Barbara Writers Conference
2001 Women's Fiction Award, Santa Barbara Writers Conference
2001 & 2002 Edith Pillsbury / Santa Barbara Foundation Writers Scholarships

I've spent nearly two decades as a Texas, California, and international English and Social Studies teacher, but when the bell rings, I'm everything but ordinary.

A true Southern soul, I grew up with grit and determination. I've never lost my appetite for adventure, my stinging sense of ju ...more

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Lisa-Behrens Smith liked R.L. Hare's review of Mulberry Seeds: A Novella: Stories of Youth and Innocence: "Mulberry Seeds: Stories of Youth and Innocence is a beautifully told novella about two sisters, Jolene and her younger sister Corrine, growing up in a poor Texas family. Written in a first-person voice that alternates between Jolene and Corrine, it f" Read more of this review »
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Lisa-Behrens Smith liked Dana VonAllmen's review of Mulberry Seeds: A Novella: Stories of Youth and Innocence: "Lisa's little novella is a gem! Having grown up in Texas, it hits all the feels of my childhood...I recommend you read this beautiful little book sitting under the shade of a big pecan tree, or swaying on a porch swing with a big ole' mason jar of sw" Read more of this review »
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