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Biography

Marsha Briscoe lives in southeastern Kentucky with her life-long soul mate husband and three dogs. An award winning published poet and novelist, she has over the years taught a variety of college English courses including advanced composition, British literature, and world literature. Currently the Senior Editor for the Whiskey Creek Press-General Line, Marsha has been a fiction editor since 2001. In addition to editing, she has authored two published novels, both of which are deeply rooted in her background of teaching literature. A Still Point in Time, a PEARL Award finalist, is a paranormal romance whose past life characters are loosely based on the historical Victorian poet/Pre-Raphaelite artist, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and his beloved model Elizabeth Siddal. A Family Matter, Marsha’s second novel, brings the rudiments of an ancient Greek myth into a 1990's eastern Kentucky setting. Both of these novels are available from Whiskey Creek Press: www.whiskeycreekpress.comhttp://www.whiskeycreekpress.com Two of Marsha’s award-winning poems (sonnets) appear in the LOVE Anthology available from Whiskey Creek Press.http://www.whiskeycreekpress.com. Her sonnet "Effusions of Dawn" was voted the #4 best poem published in 2006 by Preditors & Editors Reader's Poll. The proud mother of three grown sons, Marsha enjoys in her spare time tennis, golf, and piano. To learn more about her novels and poems, visit Marsha’s author website at: http://www.marshabriscoe.com

Inspiration

The story that inspired my A Still Point in Time (paranormal romantic suspense) is that of the Victorian poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti and his beloved, though doomed lover/wife/model: Elizabeth Siddal. The inspiration for my A Family Matter is the ancient Greek Phaedra Myth. I was teaching in one of my college World Lit classes the play by Racine entitled Phaedra. So I embodied that myth into my contemporary treatment of it in my romantic mystery, A Family Matter which is set in the late 1990s in the eastern Kentucky coal areas.