About Author Nancy L. Reed

My first writing attempt, at the age of four, was a soup-and-sandwich cafe menu. A love of words grew from that time. I wrote poetry during my elementary and high school years resulting in two chapbooks. Numerous short stories and the beginnings of two novels blossomed from the heady days of writing fiction during college. After college I took a variety of writing classes and workshops to further fuel my passion.

My lifelong relationship with words has brought me here — a book of short stories, a collection of memory snippets, and a gift book of poems and songs about dogs. A second book of memory snippets, a second dog-grr-el book, and a children's book in poetic form will be published in 2016, with a novel following soon after.

The power of words to describe the world we live in and those worlds we’ve never seen, to celebrate people we know and those we’ve never met, and to share our thoughts and feelings as well as focus our futures is a gift we give ourselves and others. Enjoy your words.

Activities

Interview, radio station 1310 KFKA Greeley, CO (May 2019).

Member, Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers (2016-).

Participant, Loveland Public Library Local Author Showcase (2015, 2016).

Participant, Writing classes and workshops (2005-2013).

Participant, Northern Colorado Writers Annual Conference (2011, 2012, 2014).

Member, Northern Colorado Writers (2005-).

Factotum, Northern Colorado Writers (2011-2013).

Creator/Coordinator, Backyard Readings (June-August 2013).

Reader, Northern Colorado Writers Readings (2013), Bas Bleu Theater, Fort Collins, CO.

Creator/Coordinator, Open Mic Night, Northern Colorado Writers (2011-2012).

Instructor, Northern Colorado Writers:

Word for Writers (2011)
Grammar, Punctuation, and Spelling (2011)

Member, Critique Group (2005-)