Bowker Biography:
R. Grace Comyns

I was born in a small town in central Vermont, the ninth of thirteen children—four girls and nine boys. I left home shortly after eighth grade graduation, and spent the next four years attending a Catholic high school in a nearby city. Having decided not to stay in Vermont and marry some immature idiot as many of my friends planned to do, I found a job in Connecticut and married one there. I was blessed with two wonderful children from that marriage, the first of several.

The second chapter of When Darla Hit is about my childhood, my incredible mother, and the way she cared for her oversized family. The rest of the book is fictional, except for certain historical events that did, of course, take place. Although I’ve written short stories, poetry, and songs since childhood, this is the first work I have attempted to publish. Whatever its faults, I take responsibility for every word, and for my humble attempt to show what I understand to be life’s most important lessons.

After a number of entrepreneurial ventures in four other states, I finally came home to my beloved Green Mountain State for good in 2002. My home, a chalet that my second mom, Doris, named Camp Aerie, is on the side of one of those mountains. Friends call this place a retreat, and I’m seldom without guests. I spend much of my time reading, writing, tending flora, and sometimes shoveling snow. Life is good.

 

 

Email: rgracecomyns@pshift.com
rgracetn@yahoo.com
Web: http://www.whendarlahit.com
Address:  R. Grace Comyns, c/o Ridley-Brook Publishing
2910 Camels Hump Road
N. Duxbury, VT 05676
Phone:  (802) 244-0904