Una Belle Townsend

Una Belle Townsend has been an elementary-school teacher for nearly twenty years. She graduated from East Texas Baptist College and earned a master's degree in elementary education at Stephen F. Austin State University. She has received many local honors for her short stories and poetry and is the author of Grady's in the Silo, published by Pelican. Townsend has lived in Yukon, Oklahoma, for more than twenty-five years.