J C Sasser

Born and raised in Metter, Georgia, J.C. Sasser started her professional career at age 12, working as a dishwasher, waitress, and cook at a truck stop off Georgia’s I-16. Over her life, she has worked as an envelope licker, tortoise tagger, lifeguard, Senate page, model, editor, water-polo coach, marine biologist, plant grower, software consultant, and 6-Sigma Black Belt. She is the award winning author of Gradle Bird (Koehler Books 2017) and a contributor to Town Magazine and the forthcoming anthology, Gather at the River: Twenty-five Authors on Fishing edited by David Joy and Eric Rickstad (Hub City Press 2019). She currently lives in an old WWII barracks in the south Georgia woods with her husband, Thomas, their two sons, T.C. and Robert Esten, and two dogs, Boo Reedy and Batman.