Editor's Bio

Editor's Bio

Rhodes

Kathy Rhodes is Founder and Senior Writer/Editor for TurnStyle Writing, Editing & Publishing Solutions, an alliance of award-winning writers and editors who work writer-to-writer to help others improve and polish their manuscripts before submitting and/or publishing. For editing help with a book manuscript, or even an essay, e-mail Rhodes.

Rhodes is a member of the Nashville Writers Alliance, a board member of the Tennessee Writers Alliance, and past-president of the Williamson County Council for the Written Word. She is co-director of the Oxford Creative Nonfiction Conference in Oxford, Mississippi, November 11-14, 2010.

Nashville Writers Alliance

Rhodes' essay "An Open Letter" appeared in The Best Creative Nonfiction Volume III, edited by Lee Gutkind, published by W. W. Norton, in July 2009. Her story was singled out for a review in The New Yorker.

Rhodes is the author of Pink Butterbeans: Stories from the Heart of a Southern Woman, a collection of 50 personal essays. She is publisher and editor of the online literary magazine, Muscadine Lines: A Southern Journal, (www.asouthernjournal.com), ISSN 1554-8449. The journal, in operation since January 2005, is a Place for Emerging and Established Writers to Publish Their Works. She is also editor of the book Muscadine Lines: A Southern Anthology, a collection of 28 stories and 28 poems by 28 writers, all veterans of the journal by the same name. Rhodes is contributing co-editor of Gathering: Writers of Williamson County, an eclectic collection of 42 works of short fiction and creative nonfiction by 31 writers from Williamson County, Tennessee.

Stories written by Rhodes have appeared in magazines, newspapers, and literary anthologies, including the local Our Voices: Williamson County Literary Review, 1995, 1997, and 1998. Her essay, “The Wedding Hankie,” was included in Simon & Schuster’s nationally distributed Chocolate for a Woman’s Soul II. She has also written for regional publications, such as The Oxford So and So and The Writer's Loft's The Trunk, and online publications, such as USA Deep South and Southern Hum.

She earned a BA in English from Delta State University, did post-graduate studies in English (technical writing/editing) at the University of Memphis, and was a classroom teacher for a decade.

Paddling the Harpeth River

Rhodes resides in Franklin, Tennessee, where she enjoys teaching creative nonfiction, walking her cocker spaniel, photography, riding the backroads, and kayaking.