Sharman Jean Burson received her BSE degree from the University of Alabama where she was a member of Delta Delta Delta sorority. She received her Masters degree from Troy University. She is a wife, mother, amateur genealogist, gardener, teacher and sometime adjunct history professor, freelance writer, short story writer, karaoke singer, and webmaster for Southern-style.com, a general interest website. "Whatever I am generally interested in goes on the website." Ramsey also writes historical fiction under the name of Sharman Burson Ramsey -- a family saga published by Mercer University Press beginning with Swimming with Serpents and continuing with In Pursuit. She divides her time between Dothan, Alabama, and Panama City, Florida, with her husband. Both she and her husband share an Alabama heritage, two daughters and a son, three granddaughters and two grandsons and a standard poodle.