Melinda West Seifert

        We live the rhythms of our stories

              through the cadence of the

                 connections we make.

 

 

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Melinda West Seifert says she has been writing since first learning that block letters made words, and words made sentences, and when connected, sentences created stories. This was a long time ago.

 

Melinda graduated with a B.S. from Newcomb College and earned her M.S. from Tulane University. She is a member of the Chickasaw Nation and lives on a ranch in Texas with her husband Jay, and a collection of animals, including Otter, the inspiration for her newest children's book, 'The Dog Who Hated Christmas."  Their now-adult twin daughters escaped with lives of their own.

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She has won numerous awards for her short stories. "The Jesus Horse" is her first book-length work of fiction. "Grandmother's Yarn" is her first children's book, followed by "Grandmother's Horses," and "The Dog Who Hated Christmas."

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