Buckman, Carole Duncan - Writer
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Carole Duncan Buckman is the author of two published young adult novels, SIGNS AND WONDERS FROM OUR JOURNALS and NEIGHBORS AND TRAITORS. She also has had stories published in story collections. She won Best of Contest in the Corpus Christi Writer’s Contest for a short story. She’s won prizes for poetry and for a novel in progress. Highlights for Children Magazine published her story, “Jared to the Rescue” in September 2006 and Highlights recently purchased another short story “Watching the Sheets.”
Carole was a teacher and librarian. She has a degree in English from the University of Nebraska and worked on a graduate English degree at the University of Texas.
When she’s not writing, she leads tours at the LBJ Library, snow skis, plays with grandchildren, and travels the world with her husband Bruce. She also visits Austin elementary schools to give poetry programs and to support writing activities.