Prior to retiring to Franklin County, VA, Becky Mushko taught English at the middle school, high school, and college levels. She also served as the 2006-07 writer-in-residence for Roanoke (VA) County Schools. From 1994 until 2005, she wrote for BLUE RIDGE TRADITIONS. Her humor column, "Peevish Advice," ran for ten years, first in BRT and later in the SMITH MOUNTAIN EAGLE. Her work appears in A CUP OF COMFORT FOR WRITERS, IT WAS A DARK AND STORMY NIGHT, and Volumes II and III of ANTHOLOGY OF APPALACHIAN WRITERS. She's a 1997 Pushcart Prize nominee, a three-time winner of the Sherwood Anderson S...