Eileen Granfors
Eileen Granfors lived in Los Angeles, California, and has now retired with husband Patrick to the Missouri Ozarks. A former army brat who was born in New Orleans and lived in Germany, she and her family settled in Imperial Beach, California, where her mother’s love of body surfing turned her into an avid surfer girl.
Eileen is a proud UCLA alumna. After a full career of teaching high school, Eileen retired to the writing life. She has four novels and four anthologies in print.
“Stairs of Sand" is the novel I began ten years ago, and all my other work has filtered around it. The plot of a mother and a daughter, both with borderline personalities, is full of conflicts and learning. radition of the Day of the Dead. She i
The youtube video gives you a good idea of what is going on in the novel.” Here’s the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SnDv4...
Her first novel, "Some Rivers End on the Day of the Dead," is a coming-of-age multicultural look at the Hispanic wrote the prequel in 2013, THE PINATA MAKER'S DAUGHTER and is working on its sequel, So You, Solimar. To fulfill a promise to her former students, she wrote a volume of historical fiction, a prequel to Dickens’ "Tale of Two Cities." It is called SYDNEY'S STORY, with a focus on Sydney Carton's young life.
“Lately, I don't talk much except to Mel. I make an exception because he has a dog.”
“A few blossoms float into the room. They drop like frayed yellow ribbons on the gray carpet.”
“California, still a magical vanity fair.”
“I never tired of picturing sharks.”
“We are out sisters' keepers.”
“Something in the air this morning made me feel like flying. . . "Spring Flight”
“Heavy as such things areAfter the wordslide, the writing begins."From "Word Quake”
“A dog's good for filling a grief-dug hole.""In the Shape of Shep”
“Sleep, ladies. I will be your St. Florian." Tomaso”
“pencils racing across paper, a sound I like." Marisol”