Kathy Hepinstall

I lived in Texas and Oklahoma until I was about six years old. Then my father moved us to New Jersey. My Texas accent never recovered from the two years I spent there. The rest of my childhood I lived in Spring Texas, a couple hours from the Louisiana border.

After I received my bachelor′s degree from The University of Texas in Austin, Texas, I moved to Houston to try to join the creative writing master′s program at The University of Houston. Being declared "marginal," I never got into the program. Instead, I took the literature route and received my master′s degree two and a half years later.

I then moved to Los Angeles and...

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