Alice Twiggs Vantrease

Alice Twiggs Vantrease is a child of the South. Alice has appeared on the Tales From the South radio program on Arkansas Public Radio where she read one of her short stories, Strom Thurmond's Tea Party (Not to be confused with today's political party as the story takes place in 1948.) A podcast of that program can be found on the NPR web site. She has been invited to appear again on Tales From the South with a reading of another of her short stories The Messin' Potion. Now taking a sabbatical from the media and marketing rat race, she is pursuing her interest in writing. Following a normal liberal arts education, she received a degree in Confusion from the Institute of Marriage where major areas of interest were concentrated in diaper changing and cheese grits. She received an advanced degree in the School of Media Obfuscation where her thesis "The Importance of Truth in News Reporting" was solidly rejected. Final thesis topic was "Rejection: Why Salespeople Love Sales." She is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in the School of Dirty Knees where her thesis "Advice to a New Gardener from a Used One" is under current review. In addition to The Rabbit in the Moon - A Garden Tale for the Young and the Young at Heart, she is the author of Charlie's Secret, a novel set in the Lowcountry of South Carolina. She claims to be a truly liberated woman: Her children are grown and the dog is finally housebroken. She has just completed a book of short stories: The Hootchie Cootchie Pickler and Other Southern Tales.