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Cynthia D’Alba |
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I was born in Hot Springs, Arkansas and lived there until I went off to college at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville (Go Razorbacks!). I’ve lived in Little Rock, Memphis, back to Little Rock, and finally back home to Hot Springs, where my husband and I live on a lake. Here are a couple of photos from my yard. Notice all the dogwoods in bloom.
I spent seventeen years in the healthcare field. I worked as an RN, taught Obstetrics in an RN program, coordinated a prenatal screening program and then was Medical Services Director at the University of Tennessee, Memphis and ended my medical career as an Administrator for a private group medical practice. I missed academic and left medicine to return to the University of Memphis as Director of Graduate Programs at the Fogelman College of Business. I grabbed the opportunity to return to Arkansas by taking a position as Assistant Dean for Executive Programs in the College of Business at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. It was there that I finished my education by earning a doctorate in Higher Education Administration. In 2002, I retired and took up the pastime that had consumed all my spare time my entire life –reading. I’ve been a reader as far back as I can remember – including forging letters from my mother when I was in grade school so I could stay in from recess and read! I cut my teeth on Nancy Drew, Trixie Beldon, and The Hardy Boys. Then when I was fourteen, I discovered
And my reading life was never the same again! In 2002, my reading was Crusie, Phillips, Howard, McNaught, et al. I was reading a book a day! After about a year of watching me with a nonstop series of books in my hands, my husband suggested I give fiction writing a try. And I thought...why not? How hard could it be? (Insert hysterical laughing by published authors here!) How hard? V-E-R-Y! Being an academic at heart, I did what any academic would do; I decided to get as much information about the craft as I could. I traveled a great deal in 2006, meeting people and learning about writing as an art. Visit my photo gallery to see SOME of the authors I was lucky enough to meet. Since my husband retired in 2003, we’ve split our time between home in Arkansas and home in our RV on the road somewhere. But we don’t travel alone. We have Maggie (Border Collie), Jill (Flat Coated Retriever) and Panama (Spoiled Parrot). So, that’s my story. I travel. I read. I write. Hopefully, one day I can add...I publish!
If we meet somewhere on the road, tell me hi! |
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These two pictures were take in Titusville FL in January 2007 when I was there for a couple of writers’ conferences. |
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