What do you want to be when you grow up?
For me, the answers were: doctor, veterinarian, and writer. The actuality was much different. My roles have been: teacher; homemaker and mother; realtor (briefly); owner and operator of three women’s retail stores (disastrous); and registered nurse, specializing in the operating room and in psychiatry. Now that I have retired from nursing, I have returned to one of my earliest ambitions-writing full time.
Bio
Joanne Kukanza Easley, born in Chicago, Illinois, has adopted Texas as her home. She lives in the Texas Hill Country on a small ranch with her husband, three rescue terriers, and abundant wildlife. Retired from a career in nursing—with dual specialties in the cold, clinical operating room, and the intense, emotional world of psychiatric nursing, she devotes her time to writing fiction. Her debut novel SWEET JANE was released on March 19, 2020 by Black Rose Writing. JUSt ONE LOOK was released on June 24, 2021. She is hard at work on her third book, I’LL BE SEEING YOU, based on a character in SWEET JANE.
