Rita M RealiInternational award-winning novelist Rita M. Reali has been writing since she could hold a pencil. She's a national award-winning journalist and award-winning essayist, photographer, parody songwriter and visual artist.Bitten by the radio bug at an erly age, this onetime DJ and radio news director weaves elements of the broadcast world and its assorted quirky personalities into her novels. A native and longtime resident of Connecticut, Rita, her husband and her butterscotch tabby live on the Cumberland Plateau in Eastern Tennessee, where she's an independent editor and "literary midwife." Read More Read Less