Author Bio

Author Bio

I was born in Boston and lived in Massachusetts for the first twenty six years of my life. I attended Salem State University, receiving a Bachelors of Arts in English in 2000 and a Masters of Education in 2003. I moved to Green Cove Springs, Florida, in 2004. I have continued my graduate work at the University of North Florida, where I will finish my Masters of Art in English in 2014.

I’ve spent the last thirteen years of my life teaching. I started out in junior high, and quickly found my way to teaching high school and college. Currently, I work as a twelfth-grade English teacher, drama teacher in our woefully ignored and underfunded theater department (I am the theater department), and adjunct professor of Composition at Saint Johns River State College.  I also have three children, a ten-year-old and two six-year-olds. When I find time, I write, often instead of sleep. Currently, I have completed two women’s fiction novels, This is Hope and Maggie’s Daughter, and I am working on a young adult book tentatively titled Playing on Ice.

I have published academically and commercially. While an undergrad, I published a piece of narrative non-fiction and a short story in Soundings East, the literary magazine of Salem State University.  Both pieces came from my senior thesis project, which was a mixture of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry. I presented the short story at the Simmons Undergraduate Conference in April 2000. My commercial writing has been freelance, writing for websites such as Yahoo! and Yahoo! Sports. My narrative non-fiction piece about the Boston Red Sox, “Sixty Perfect Seconds”, originally written for Yahoo! Voices, was reprinted on several sports websites. I can be found online on Twitter @DoriStarnes and on my blog “Dori Plus Three” http://doriplusthree.blogspot.com/