Pierrette Rouleau Stukes
Pierrette Rouleau Stukes loved words as a child, but forgot. Relishing others’ words, she earned degrees
in English literature. She remembered her first love and has published creative nonfiction in The Dead
Mule School of Southern Literature, Mountain Memoirs: An Ashe County Anthology, and The Rose. Her
essay “Swimming” was awarded first place in a regional creative nonfiction contest. “Tilted Toward Life”
was nominated for the 2011 Best of the Net for nonfiction. A short-short fiction story, “Between the
Lines,” earned an Honorable Mention in New Millennium Writings. Her nonfiction memoir essay
“Misinformation Effect” has also earned an Honorable Mention in New Millennium Writings.