Kerry Madden-Lunsford is a regular contributor to the LA Times OpEd page. For several years, she directed the creative writing program at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, where she is still a professor, and she taught in Antioch University’ s MFA program in Los Angeles for a decade. She is the author of the picture book Ernestine’ s Milky Way. She also wrote the Maggie Valley Trilogy, which includes Gentle’ s Holler, Louisiana’ s Song, and Jessie’ s Mountain. Her first novel, Offsides, was a New York Public Library Pick for the Teen Age. Kerry is the mother of three adult children, and she now lives full-time in Birmingham, Alabama.
