Charmane V. from Norman, OK

Hello! I am quite passionate about writing… prose, poetry, song… My interests in writing go back as far as I can remember. After 5th grade, my poetry was included in _Teaching Writing in K-8 Classrooms_ by Iris M. Tiedt (Prentice-Hall, 1983). My grades in writing were always high, and I was able to waive writing classes at the university level. I graduated _magna cum laude_ with a bachelor’s degree in Creative Arts–a course of study which included an emphasis in Music and a sub-emphasi