South Charlotte resident Joy Callaway always knew she wanted to write when she grew up, but she never imagined being a full-time novelist.
“My brother and I weren’t really allowed to watch TV as kids,” says Callaway. “I filled my free time with writing plays, stories and magazines.”
The imagination that inspired the South Mecklenburg High School grad to create magazines led her to a career of writing six novels in seven years. Callaway’s fourth book, “All the Pretty Places,” hit bookstores last spring.
Callaway graduated from Marshall University and then pursued a graduate degree in mass communications at the University of South Carolina. A self-proclaimed “nerd and lover of history,” she often dug into newspaper archives, old letters, photos and ancestry records just for fun. When she tried writing a book, she received two rejections. But three years later, she signed a literary agent and got a book deal.
Krisha Chachra served eight years on the Blacksburg Town Council and has written for NRV Magazine for a decade. She is a member of The Mama Movement and a proud mom to a curious toddler. Krisha is a community advocate and connector and runs an event production organization that hosts Up on the Roof. Krisha has reported and hosted shows for public radio and television and has freelanced for USA Weekend Magazine, the Honolulu Advertiser and the Alexandria Gazette among others. Her book about returning to Blacksburg, Homecoming Journals, may be found online or in local bookstores.
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