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About Me — Kelly Anne Paige
A Quiet Voice with Stories to Tell
Let me introduce myself.. Although I don’t remember how it started, I seem to have always been a writer. My fourth grade teacher noticed that one or two of my weekly spelling sentences had a continuing storyline and he encouraged me to write a “radio play” which we later recorded on very old-school style recording equipment and played back to the class on a cassette player. I wrote a book of poems that my mother typed up and gave to family members one Christmas shortly after the divorce when money was tight and it was hard for her to buy gifts for other family members. And after learning about rainbows in fifth grade science I wrote a children’s story about a little bunny discovering how rainbows are made. I illustrated it, too, but my grandpa (an actual artist and medical illustrator by trade) dashed all hopes I ever had of becoming an artist by looking at my larger than life rabbit on the page (I hadn’t yet developed the concept of perspective in drawing) and told me I should stick to drawing dead things. But I still had stories to tell.
Let me introduce myself.. As a kid born in the early 1970s, my brother and I were the first kids in the neighborhood whose parents were divorced. I remember there being certain kids who were no longer allowed to play with us when that happened (yet years later their parents…
