
Jamie Sims Coakley
Author


If you had no fear, what would you create?
I spent my early childhood years living alongside the Buffalo River in Northwest Arkansas without television or neighbors. Those long, formative hours spent exploring the wild river and peaceful forests which surrounded it, set in motion a way of looking at the world that would later inform me as a storyteller. Alone in nature early in life, and then moving frequently throughout my adolescence, I cultivated my writer’s sensibilities, carefully observing everything about the world around me and the people who populated it. WhenI was twelve years old, my aunt gave me a journal with the gentle instructions to “write about it” and I have been writing about it, ever since. As a multidisciplinary artist, writing has taken many forms over the years, as music, movies, mixed media art projects, and now, novels. Regardless of form, my underlying desire to connect with and inspire others through storytelling has been my constant companion and greatest love.
