| E-mail Trina at: trinaallen @ nc.rr.com To Live Again Winner of Write Around the Block's January 2008 short story contest "... it’s quite compelling ..." Elizabeth Oliver, The Rambler Magazine Peculiar Advice Winner of an excellence award from Dana Literary Society. Unexcused absence: teacher shortage Why do nearly one thousand teachers leave the field of teaching every school day ? Ten Dollar Tastings Wonderful wines that won't wear on your wallet by Harry Calhoun The Raleigh Area Women Writers (RAWW) members are active writers of book-length and short fiction "I like your writing style..." Jenny Jones, Editor, Education Today |
| Trina Allen took an unusual route to writing fiction. She waited until she was thirty-eight to write her first short story; proving that it is never too late to teach an old dog new tricks, ahem, or to move worlds that never were to the written page. Trina grew up in St. Louis, Missouri, the oldest of five sisters. She married as a teenager and moved to California, then Conneticut, and finally found her way to central New York. Graduating Summa Cum Laude from the State University of New York at Cortland with a BS in elementary and early secondary science education, Trina earned her MS in reading education in 1993 while working as an elementary school teacher in central New York. She moved to North Carolina in 1996 – making it the sixth state she’s called home. Trina taught middle school science in Orange and Wake Counties in North Carolina before deciding to trade the classroom for a keyboard. She currently works as a science education researcher at a corporation that develops and scores educational tests. Trina is an avid thriller reader whose imagination takes her away, anytime, day or night. Time to daydream is a luxury she loves, and sometimes indulges in when she should be doing other things – to the chagrin of her husband and anyone who is driving on the highway during her commute to and from Durham. Her favorite authors include Tess Gerritsen, John Sandford, JA Konrath, David Baldacci, Diane Chamberlain, Michael Palmer, and Stephen King. Probably, because she has never grown up, Trina likes to read books for young adults and children. Her favorite children’s authors are too numerous to name, but include Catharine Patterson, AVI, Esther Forbes, Howard Fast, Irene Hunt, EL Konigsburg, Jonathan Stroud, and Jack London. Trina lives in Raleigh, North Carolina, happily married to writer and poet Harry Calhoun. She has one child, a grown daughter, who lives in central New York with her grandson. When she doesn’t have her nose in a book or her fingers flying across the keyboard, Trina enjoys traveling, roller coasters, hiking, swimming, cooking, wine, playing chess, and films – romantic comedies and, you guessed it, thrillers. Please check out her blog, where she'll be discussing the process of writing and what’s going on in her writing world and her life. Join in the discussion if you like. |
| About Trina Allen writer, educator, and aspiring author |
| "Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere." Carl Sagan |
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