Carolyn Hall grew up on a farm near Olmitz, Kansas. She received her dietetics degree from Kansas State University. She's taught cooking and meal planning to food service employees, girl scouts and 4-H. She served on the development committee and worked as a prose editor for Kansas City Voices magazine. She has authored essays for Chicken Soup for the Mother and Son Soul, Chicken Soup to Inspire a Women's Soul, Sacred Stones by Adams Media, and The Kansas City Star. Her articles, op-ed pieces and poetry have appeared in Sacred Fire by Adams Media, the Kansas Poets Web site, The Best Times, Echoes of the Ozarks II and III, The Kansas City Star, Produce Merchandising Magazine, the University of Kansas Medical Center Web site, and various newspapers throughout Kansas. She and her husband John live on a bluff overlooking the Kansas River in Shawnee, Kansas.
