About The Author
Carolyn Maddux lives and gardens and writes and procrastinates in Shelton, Washington, a small, once-upon-a-time timber town on a southwest arm of the Salish Sea.
She worked for 24 years as a reporter for legendary editor Henry Gay at the Shelton-Mason County Journal, where she variously covered county and city government, the courts-and-cops beat and the managing-editor’s desk. In a previous incarnation, she taught high-school English in Aberdeen and sixth grade at The Annie Wright School in Tacoma, and more recently freshman-level English at Olympic College Shelton, where she continues to teach a creative writing class. She was a co-convenor of Write in the Woods, an annual writers’ conference at OCS, from 1999 to 2010. She teaches workshops with various entities in the Northwest.
Maddux serves on the board of Hypatia-in-the-Woods, a small nonprofit that maintains a secuded cottage in cedar woods near Shelton. Hypatia offers residencies of one to four weeks to women in the arts, academia and entrepreneurship. Her second book of poetry, Voluntary on a Flight of Angels, focuses on women and is available as a benefit for Hypatia-in-the-Woods.
She is married to Donald, an Episcopal priest who, although nominally retired, serves as associate for Hispanic ministry at St. John’s Church in Olympia. They enjoy making an enormous vegetable garden on property west of their town, and when they can, they retreat with their Shetland sheepdog, Selah, to a tiny Victorian beach cabin near the mouth of the Columbia River.
The Madduxes operated a retirement-hobby antiques shop called Very, Ltd. for nine years in Shelton. During that time, Carolyn co-wrote a cookbook/memoir with nonagenarian restaurateur Nita Bariekman, Nita’s Cooking. The first run of 500 copies sold out in two days; it’s now on its fifth printing. (At 98, Nita is enjoying her first year of retirement.) That book led to a commission from the board of the local hospital district to write a history of Mason General Hospital, which turned into CARE, a history of health care in the county from pioneer days onward.
The Madduxes’ son, Michael, once worked as a kayak guide on Santa Catalina Island. While there, he became convinced that his mother, an inveterate reader of mysteries, should write one set on the island. It took him thirteen years to convince her, but he is persistent. A View to Die For is nearing completion, and a second book featuring the affable detective Rhys MacFarlane and his photographer friend Ali Yoshimoto, tentatively titled Murder on the Half-Shell, is in the works.
She worked for 24 years as a reporter for legendary editor Henry Gay at the Shelton-Mason County Journal, where she variously covered county and city government, the courts-and-cops beat and the managing-editor’s desk. In a previous incarnation, she taught high-school English in Aberdeen and sixth grade at The Annie Wright School in Tacoma, and more recently freshman-level English at Olympic College Shelton, where she continues to teach a creative writing class. She was a co-convenor of Write in the Woods, an annual writers’ conference at OCS, from 1999 to 2010. She teaches workshops with various entities in the Northwest.
Maddux serves on the board of Hypatia-in-the-Woods, a small nonprofit that maintains a secuded cottage in cedar woods near Shelton. Hypatia offers residencies of one to four weeks to women in the arts, academia and entrepreneurship. Her second book of poetry, Voluntary on a Flight of Angels, focuses on women and is available as a benefit for Hypatia-in-the-Woods.
She is married to Donald, an Episcopal priest who, although nominally retired, serves as associate for Hispanic ministry at St. John’s Church in Olympia. They enjoy making an enormous vegetable garden on property west of their town, and when they can, they retreat with their Shetland sheepdog, Selah, to a tiny Victorian beach cabin near the mouth of the Columbia River.
The Madduxes operated a retirement-hobby antiques shop called Very, Ltd. for nine years in Shelton. During that time, Carolyn co-wrote a cookbook/memoir with nonagenarian restaurateur Nita Bariekman, Nita’s Cooking. The first run of 500 copies sold out in two days; it’s now on its fifth printing. (At 98, Nita is enjoying her first year of retirement.) That book led to a commission from the board of the local hospital district to write a history of Mason General Hospital, which turned into CARE, a history of health care in the county from pioneer days onward.
The Madduxes’ son, Michael, once worked as a kayak guide on Santa Catalina Island. While there, he became convinced that his mother, an inveterate reader of mysteries, should write one set on the island. It took him thirteen years to convince her, but he is persistent. A View to Die For is nearing completion, and a second book featuring the affable detective Rhys MacFarlane and his photographer friend Ali Yoshimoto, tentatively titled Murder on the Half-Shell, is in the works.
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