Karen Heywood
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I write creative non-fiction, poetry, stage and screenplays in the voice of every woman – a voice inherited from my great-grandmother who wrote sheet music during the Depression.

My freelance work is published in several Mid-Missouri publications including Inside Columbia, Columbia Business Times, Columbia Home, Jefferson City Business Times, Family, and Mid-Missouri Mature Living.  My poetry is published in the 2001 and 2004 issues of Anvil & Lyre, 2005 and 2006 issues of Well-Versed, the 2006 issue of Harbinger, and the summer 2006 issues of Mom Writers Literary Magazine and the Mid-America Poetry Review.

I'm thrilled to be one of fifty-three featured authors in the Bylines 2007 Writer’s Desk Calendar!

I am the mother of six, Nana of six, foster mother of many, and have been married for 31 years.
Besides writing and reading, I love learning and just graduated with my Bachelor of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Stephens College in Columbia, MO.  I am currently teaching freshman comp at Stephens.