Beverly A. Hale - Also known as Bev, Aunti Biwi and . Beverly was born in Texas an odd number of years ago and then taken to Oklahoma two months later. Since then she has lived in Oklahoma, Texas, California, the D.C. area and back to Oklahoma where she now lives with her husband, two dogs and 10,000+ books. Beverly has a degree in English from the University of Oklahoma and did graduate work in Composition. She has worked at a wide variety of jobs including: teacher, IRS auditor, accountant, office manager for a SF writer's corporation, various and assorted clerk and admin positions, an attendant in a home for the emotionally disturbed, a pool cleaner, personnel consultant, director of a language school, marketing director, managing director of a gaming company, copy-editor, sales, security, meeting planner... she's been working for a long, long time.
Beverly started writing in grade school, mostly because she was bored, and also because she'd already read everything in the library. Her writing attempts were not always met with applause and acclamation...far too often, she wound up standing in the corner on the dreaded "green square" (though, to be honest, a couple of the times were for talking to the little boy on the next mat over instead of taking a nap at naptime). Periodically her parents attempted to dissuade her by pointing out that writers made no money or, seeing that didn't work, by tearing up her stories. In Middle School, one of her poems was published in a statewide anthology and her fate was sealed. Though she tried not to write (remembering that writers make no money), she continued to fall in with low companions who encouraged her writing addiction. She has had publications in poetry, short stories, novel, comics, gaming and a cookbook.
In her spare time, Beverly swims, cooks, bakes, paints, gardens, travels (Canada, Mexico, Europe, Bahamas, most of the U.S including Hawaii and Alaska), learns languages (so far she knows at least enough to find food, drink and a bathroom in German, French, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Urdu and Hindi. She's currently trying to learn Japanese and Chinese). She likes to try new things like: snorkeling, dogsledding, milking goats, making sushi, and dancing.
And she collects things: cookbooks, dictionaries, insults in other languages, but especially family. Currently she has 75+ college students from various countries (Taiwan, Thailand, Saudi Arabia, Japan, Korea, Vietnam) who call her Mom, an increasing number of nieces, nephews and godchildren as well as various brothers and sisters she has accumulated along the way.
Beverly started writing in grade school, mostly because she was bored, and also because she'd already read everything in the library. Her writing attempts were not always met with applause and acclamation...far too often, she wound up standing in the corner on the dreaded "green square" (though, to be honest, a couple of the times were for talking to the little boy on the next mat over instead of taking a nap at naptime). Periodically her parents attempted to dissuade her by pointing out that writers made no money or, seeing that didn't work, by tearing up her stories. In Middle School, one of her poems was published in a statewide anthology and her fate was sealed. Though she tried not to write (remembering that writers make no money), she continued to fall in with low companions who encouraged her writing addiction. She has had publications in poetry, short stories, novel, comics, gaming and a cookbook.
In her spare time, Beverly swims, cooks, bakes, paints, gardens, travels (Canada, Mexico, Europe, Bahamas, most of the U.S including Hawaii and Alaska), learns languages (so far she knows at least enough to find food, drink and a bathroom in German, French, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Urdu and Hindi. She's currently trying to learn Japanese and Chinese). She likes to try new things like: snorkeling, dogsledding, milking goats, making sushi, and dancing.
And she collects things: cookbooks, dictionaries, insults in other languages, but especially family. Currently she has 75+ college students from various countries (Taiwan, Thailand, Saudi Arabia, Japan, Korea, Vietnam) who call her Mom, an increasing number of nieces, nephews and godchildren as well as various brothers and sisters she has accumulated along the way.
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