Debra Coleman Jeter has published both fiction and nonfiction in popular magazines. Her first novel, The Ticket, finaled for a Selah Award and Jerry Jenkins's Operation First Novel. Her nonfiction book, Pshaw, It's Me Grandson: Tales of a Young Actor, was a finalist in the USA Book News Awards. She holds a PhD from Vanderbilt University, and a BS and an MBA from Murray State University. She and her husband live in Tennessee.
