Briscoe, Marsha

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BRISCOE, Marsha

PERSONAL: Born in Louisville, KY; daughter of Hagen (a civil and mining engineer) and Mary (a teacher and accountant) Gray; married William Briscoe (a physician); children: Greg, Trevor, Brian. Education: Christian College, A.A., 1959; University of Missouri, B.S. (education), 1961; University of Missouri, M.S. (English), 1962. Politics: Republican. Religion: Baptist. Hobbies and other interests: Golf, piano, tennis.

ADDRESSES: Home—Kentucky. E-mail—[email protected].

CAREER: Editor and novelist. RFI West (e-publisher), managing editor, 2000-02.

MEMBER: Romance Writers of America, Kentucky Romance Writers.

AWARDS, HONORS: Pearl Award finalist, Para Normal Review, for A Still Point in Time.

WRITINGS:

A Still Point in Time (e-book), RFI West (Anaheim, CA), 2001.

A Family Matter (e-book), RFI West (Anaheim, CA), 2003.

Contributor to academic journals; contributor of poetry to periodicals.

SIDELIGHTS: Marsha Briscoe told CA: "I have always been intrigued by the ancient Greek Phaedra myth. So I decided to write a novel re-telling that ancient myth in a contemporary setting. My novel A Family Matter is a modern treatment of the Phaedra myth and it is set in the eastern Kentucky coal fields. The past-life characters of my first novel, A Still Point in Time, are based upon the nineteenth-century artist and poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti and his beloved model/lover/wife Elizabeth Siddal."