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Dorsetta Hale has compiled a book
of her essays titled, "The Coast is Clear." She became an essayist by accident. A few years
ago her husband´s job relocated the family across country
from the San Francisco Bay Area to the Bay State of Massachusetts
and she began writing about their experiences in annual Christmas
letters.
When she started receiving requests for copies from friends of
friends who were strangers to her, she realized she might be onto
something. Without training or experience in the genre with the exception of
being an avid reader of local and syndicated newspaper columnists, she sent the first essay she ever wrote
on purpose to the San Francisco Chronicle and they published it.
Since then she’s had first person essays published in the
San Jose Mercury News, San Mateo County Times and she’s a
columnist for the Pacifica Tribune. She is the author of Twenty
Three Poems And A Likely Story (Jungle Peach Press, 1997), grant
recipient of the Philanthropic Ventures Foundation, Barnes & Noble
Booksellers local poetry award winner, Southern California Genealogy
Society Essay Writing Contest Winner and was named “Humor Writer of the Month,” by University of Dayton, Erma Bombeck Writers Workshop.
Ms. Hale has given up her "day job" as a 911 Public Safety Dispatcher, and no longer writes in between emergencies. |
