BIOGRAPHY
Nona Camille Burroughs Babcock
My farmer-father and teacher-mother greeted me on August 30, 1939, on a farm near Frederick, SD. I received my elementary education a one-room country school. At age sixteen, my family left the farm and headed for Clarkston, WA, but an avalanche prompted us to remain Missoula, MT. There, I met my husband, and welcomed three children.
Working as a computer programmer analyst for the U.S. Forest Service required a move to Ogden, UT. At age 55, I graduated from Weber State University with an integrated bachelor’s degree (English, Computer Science, and Business).
I have written many short stories, picture books, poetry, and two self-published novels: a middle-grade, Little Wolf's Adventure; a historical (circa 1862) young/new adult, Seeds of New Life and two unpublished young-adult: A Medicine Dream and Warrior Ghosts and Terraplane 8.
My late husband grew up on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation in Browning, MT. He suffered at the hands of bullies because he had a hare lip and was small; I also encountered bullies in grade school. These life-lasting emotional experiences inspired me to write Little Wolf's Adventure.
The Verbal Equinox, a competitive writing journal at Weber State University, Ogden, UT published a short story. I am also published in the Missoulian newspaper’s web edition, Montana Writers Guild’s anthologies Montana Voices and Holiday Voices. I placed in the Missoula Public Library’s and Coeur d’Alene, ID, Library’s writing contests. I am a member of SCBWI, Montana Writers Guild, and Fiction Plus, a critique group. I now live in Missoula, MT, with my life-partner, Darrel Fite, and our precocious dog, Peaches.
