And the Flowers Began to Dance

Joe Reese is a novelist, playwright, storyteller, and college teacher. He has written two novels (Katie Dee and Katie Haw: Letters from a Texas Farm Girl and Dear Katie Dee: More Letters from a Texas Farm), several plays (Lunacy: A Play for our Times and A Peachtree Haunting), and a number of stories and articles. When he is not teaching (English and German), he enjoys visiting elementary schools, where he tells stories from the Katie Dee novels and talks to students about writing. He and his wife Pam live currently in Lafayette, Louisiana. They have three children: Kate, Matthew, and Sam