Poets & Writers

Vivian Gibson

Age: 71. Residence: Saint Louis, Missouri. Book: The Last Children of Mill Creek (Belt Publishing, April 2020), a memoir about survival, as told from the viewpoint of a watchful young girl. Agent: None. Editor: Martha Bayne.

I THINK it is fair to say the path to publishing my debut memoir was atypical, if not serendipitous. I never thought of myself as a writer, though I love words,

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