Dori Chaconas
Photo Album
Here's
cutie-patootie me when I was 3 years old. I loved having stories
read to me.
(And I had very scruffy shoes.)
I'm the one under the baby. I was the oldest girl in a family of 7 kids, so I learned to be a story teller early in life.
In highschool I won a poetry contest in Freshman English. It was three pages long and told a tragic story. That's all I remember about it. Too bad.
This is me with striped hair in the 1970s . I wrote stories for my twin daughters. I had more than 50 stories published in kid's magazines. Lucky me!
One of the best things about being a writer is meeting other writers. Here I am with Linda Sue Park when she came to Milwaukee on her Newbery tour. Lucky me again!
Wow!
Look at all these writers!
(From left to right) Me,
Andrea Beaty, Lisa Wheeler, Anita Riggio, Julia Durango, Marsha Hayles,
and (my daughter!) Stacy DeKeyser!
Me and my grandson, Tom, in a friendly argument over who tells the worst jokes. (That would probably be me.)
