Margarite Stever

Margarite Stever grew up in Asbury, a tiny Missouri town of just over 200 people. She currently lives in a bigger city, but Asbury will always be her hometown. She has a Bachelor of Arts Degree in English from Missouri Southern State University. She writes stories and essays that touch a person’s heart. She is a member of Joplin Writers’ Guild, Missouri Writers Guild, Sleuths’ Ink Mystery Writers, Ozarks Writers League, and Ozarks Romance Authors.

Moonbeams and Ashes is her first book, though she’s been published many times. Her work has recently appeared in Chicken Soup for the Soul: It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas; Joplin Writers’ Guild Anthology, Seasons of the Four States; Anthology 2019 Sleuths’ Ink Mystery Writers; Missouri’s Emerging Writers; Legends: Passion Pages; 50-Word Stories website; the 2021, 2019, 2018, 2017, and 2016 issues of The Crowder Quill; the Fall 2015 issue of The Maine Review; Mamalode Magazine’s 2015 Better Together; and Writer’s Digest 2014 Show Us Your Shorts Collection. Her seeds of wisdom and joy can be read at ozarksmaven.com, which has been read in over 80 countries.