Authors Round the South

Donny Bailey Seagraves is a native of Athens, Georgia and lives nearby in the small town of Winterville with her husband Phillip. The Seagraves are parents to grown twins, Greg and Jenny. Donny studied journalism at the University of Georgia and has been a freelance writer for many years. She has published fiction and nonfiction for adults and children in many regional and national magazines, including Athens Magazine (where she was a longtime frequent contributer and wrote the Bookshelf Column and book reviews) and the Chicago Tribune. Her professional affiliations include SCBWI Southern Breeze Region. She also served on the Winterville City Council for six years, and was Mayor Pro Tem and Acting Mayor. For ten years, Donny owned and operated a book business, Junebug Books, and sold online on sites including Amazon.com, ABE, Alibris, Biblio and eBay. GONE FROM THESE WOODS, ISBN: 978-0-385-73629-9, published August 25, 2009 by Random House under their Delacorte Press imprint, is Donny's first published novel. She has presented workshops, done readings, and talks at many schools, writers conferences and other events, including SIBA 2009 in Greenville, SC. For more information visit her website: www.donnyseagraves.com and her blog: wintervillewriter.com.