F. J. Wilson was raised on the Gulf Coast of Mississippi in the fishing village/ artist community of Ocean Springs, ninety miles east of New Orleans; the city far from her reach but close to her heart. Much of her time growing up was spent reading under her grandmother’s big camellia bushes hiding from housework and the inevitable call to come inside and help start ‘supper’. In a time when young girls dreamed of big weddings and picket fences, she dreamed of the dangerous but darkly handsome Heathcliff and the English moors of days long gone. With Hemingway’s Paris, Scott Fitzgerald’s language and Margaret Mitchell’s south keeping her company, why would she want to clean her room? Raised with small town values but dreams of a bigger life, she was more than ready to leave home in 1965 and begin her education in the Theatre Department of the University of Southern Miss. From there she finally reached New Orleans and began a film career that sent her to New York, where she co-wrote an episode of the Kate & Allie television show, then to Los Angeles and all over the United States, Canada and New Zealand. Between films if she wasn’t taking screen writing courses she read scripts for independent producers. Her passion for the south and New Orleans brought her back to Mississippi in 2003 to work in the New Orleans film industry. In 2007 her love for writing and her love of films collided and she wrote humorous articles for the Arts and Entertainment Section of the Hattiesburg American Newspaper. She’s been writing short stories and novels about southern people since her retirement in 2008. F. J. Wilson has one son, Jason Klein. She now lives in Hattiesburg one and a half hours North East of New Orleans with her two Springer/ Hound Spaniels and is at the time married to her computer and her love of writing.