Diane T. Ashley, a “town girl” born and raised in Mississippi, has worked over twenty years for the House of Representatives. She rediscovered a thirst for writing, was led to a class taught by Aaron McCarver, and became a founding member of the Bards of Faith. Aaron McCarver is a transplanted Mississippian who was raised in the mountains near Dunlap, Tennessee. He loves teaching at Belhaven University and editing for Barbour Publishing and Summerside Press.