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Rhonda M.
Lawson is the author of A Dead Rose. She is also an Army
journalist, garnering various journalism awards, including the 1997 Training and
Doctrine Command Journalist of the Year. She is currently a sergeant first
class stationed at Camp Red Cloud, Korea, where she works in Army Public
Affairs.
A New
Orleans, La. native, Rhonda's journalism career began at Loyola University in
New Orleans, where she served a short stint on the campus newspaper. In 1994,
when she left college and joined the Army, she continued her journalism career.
Her first duty station was Fort Knox, Ky., where she edited all sections of
Inside the Turret, the post newspaper. During this tour, she earned third place
awards for both commentary and feature writing.
In 1997,
she moved to Fort Story, Va., where she served as Fort Story Bureau Chief for
the Fort Eustis Wheel newspaper. During this time, she was awarded Journalist
of the Year and Noncommissioned Officer of the Quarter. She also began to
pursue her first love, fiction and started working on her first full-length
novel, Cheatin' in the Next Room.
Rhonda's
career as a Soldier-journalist has taken her to various parts of the world,
including Japan, Hawaii, Korea, Afghanistan and Egypt. Her work has appeared in
various Army and civilian publications all over the country, including Soldiers
Magazine, The Seattle Times, and The Army Times.
Rhonda is
an active member of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc., Pi Eta Zeta chapter. She
holds a Bachelor of Arts in Communication Studies from the University of
Maryland University College, and is currently working on her Master's in Human
Relations from the University of Oklahoma. She is also a member of the Divine
Literary Tour, an organization made up of African American Greek-letter authors.
She has also contributed to five different anthologies, including Second
Chances, Crimes of Passion, Gumbo for the Soul, The Heart of Our Community, and
Surfacing.
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