Ann Johnson-Murphree was born in Alabama; grew up the daughter of a sharecropper and an emotionally absent mother... living in a "two- pen" cabin; after retirement she pursued writing short stories, poetry and painting in acrylics and watercolors. Her greatest influence in creating a short story or a poem is the determination to validate and keep alive those many people who gave her their stories for safekeeping and the promise too, "always remember." She lives in Wisconsin with her dog Mason she writes and paints daily. Ann has published in Kindle eBooks and paperback at Amazon.com: Echoing I...