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Marie K. Johnston

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"But all of the chartreuse buds on the new spring branches are also the brown crispy leaves that blow to the ground in the fall. It's natural. It's the way life works..."
-Chapter Sixteen, "Mental"

Marie K Johnston (aka Kristen M McCurry) is a novelist, poet, visual artist and website creator. She is a 42 year old married mother of one living in a little arty town just northwest of Houston, TX.

She was educated at The University of Texas at Austin and Cornell University, and was accepted into Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism.

Marie K Johnston has written/edited for a wide variety of publications and agencies (including Walmart.com and Rice University's Web & Print Division), and she taught English and Liberal Arts subjects fo ...more

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