About Kathy Rhodes

Kathy Rhodes

I am Publisher and Editor of the online literary magazine, Muscadine Lines: A Southern Journal, ISSN 1554-8449, in operation since January, 2005. I am Co-editor of Gathering: Writers of Williamson County and Editor of the book Muscadine Lines: A Southern Anthology, a collection of 28 stories and 28 poems by 28 writers, all first-year veterans of the journal by the same name.

My collection of essays is Pink Butterbeans: Stories from the heart of a Southern woman. My essays have also been published in The Best Creative Nonfiction Volume III, edited by Lee Gutkind, and Chocolate for a Woman’s Soul II.

I am a member of the Nashville Writers Alliance, on the Board of Directors of the Tennessee Writers Alliance, and served as President of the Williamson County [Tennessee] Council for the Written Word.

I studied creative nonfiction under Lee Gutkind, the Godfather behind Creative Nonfiction, in 2007 and 2008, and under Dinty W. Moore of Brevity in 2008. I also attended the first Southern Creative Nonfiction Conference in Oxford, Mississippi, in 2008.

I earned a BA in English from Delta State University and did graduate studies in technical writing at the University of Memphis.

In 2006 I established my own business, CHECKPOINT Proofreading & Editorial Services.

Currently, I live in Franklin, Tennessee.

Christmas in Mississippi, 2008