Art Chowder January | February, Issue 19 | Page 32

CREATIVE WRITER
Jackie Rose
What brought you to creative writing?
Interview
With Karen Mobley
I am an only child from a generation in which adults were adults, not pals or peers. I created my own worlds from a very early
age, on an old manual typewriter my mother brought home from her job before it was to be thrown away. I spent enormous
amounts of time outdoors, watching and getting acquainted with animals (live ones and dead ones … I had no “yuck” filter; kids
really do not) and weather and plants. Now that I’m older (73) I describe memories as they come, stories as they unspool like
movies in my head – images, people, places, and animals from a varied experience.
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