Reneé Critcher Lyons
Reneé Critcher Lyons’s mother always said she would be a writer; as a youth, she wrote on everything—the coffee table, the walls, even the lamp shades! Renee took this prediction to heart. Now, as a creative writer (MFA–Vermont College) and professor of librarianship/children’s literature (East Tennessee State University), little-known points of history inspire Reneé’s creative bent, as does traversing the Blue Ridge hills of North Carolina, her family home for over 250 years. She lives in Boone, North Carolina.