Each week Lone Star Literary profiles a newsmaker in Texas books and letters, including authors, booksellers, publishers.
Kay Ellington has worked in management for a variety of media companies, including Gannett, Cox Communications, Knight-Ridder, and the New York Times Regional Group, from Texas to New York to California to the Southeast and back again to Texas. She is the coauthor, with Barbara Brannon, of the Texas novels The Paragraph RanchA Wedding at the Paragraph Ranch.
Anita Bunkley was born in Columbus, Ohio, and earned her degree from Mount Union College.
The Houston-area author was formerly a middle-school a language teacher, adult-education teacher, and director of nonprofit organizations. She has been recognized with an Excellence in Achievement Award by the United Negro College Fund; her Wild Embers was cited by Publishers Weekly as one of the ten best romances of 1995.
