Virginia McGee Butler

 

VIRGINIA McGEE BUTLER, retired teacher and working writer from Hattiesburg, Mississippi, is a confessed wordaholic. She enjoys reading, crossword puzzles, Scrabble, and writing for either children or adults. For eight years she has written children’s curriculum for the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship. During that same period, she has often written daily devotional material for Reflections. She is currently receiving encouraging rejection letters for her tween novel Attracting Squirrels.


PUBLISHED WORKS

Scheduled for fall 2008: “Katrina’s Aftermath” poem in Thema; “Field Trip” article for Lifelong Learning Institute Review; and “Remembering/Forgetting” for the anthology Cup of Comfort for Families Touched by Alzheimer’s Disease

Winter 2007, Fall 2005, and Spring 1999 – Once Upon a Time articles

February 2005 – “Celebrate Variety” in Highlights for Children

November 2004 – “Main Street Books,” a Great American Bookstore article for Byline

October 2004 – “The Problem with Payback” in Cup of Comfort for Sisters

February 2004 – “Borrowed Eyes” in Lifeglow, reprinted 2008 in Lutheran Digest

February 2004 – “Anna Gives Up” in Guide

December 2001 – “The Big Apple” in Baptists Today

Summer 2001 and Summer 1992 – articles in The Delta Kappa Gamma Bulletin