A.J. Louise is a storyteller and retired Sergeant in the Army National Guard residing in Southwest Missouri, where she grew up. As a lover of both cinema and literature, she prides herself on writing captivating stories that give pages in a book the glitz and splendor so often limited to the silver screen. Unbound by any single genre, her character-driven tales capture everything from the tragicomic realities of growing up, to conquering personal wars, to finding the light in life’s haziest days. When she isn’t telling her stories and developing characters, she’s thinking about her stories and characters on a farm with cows, and her orange cat named Toast.