The Gator Hunter

As an anthropology student many years ago, Trisha O'Keefe became aware of the past's potential for mystery. While living and studying in Egypt, she began writing with that connection in mind. "Until an instructor remarked some of my papers read more like novels," O'Keefe says. After traveling and studying abroad for 14 years, O'Keefe returned home to the States where she enrolled in graduate school to continue her work in alternative healing traditions. Finally, in response to her mother's question, "What are you going to do for a living?" the author took a teaching job. "I thought I knew something until I got in the classroom. They taught me how ignorant I really am," she says. "And still do." For her literature students, she wrote a book on William Shakespeare, The Bard Rocks, published in 2006 by KIB Publications. O'Keefe lives in Georgia where she teaches and, of course, writes mysteries.