Author Bio:
Reiny Pierson's article “The Influence of Brain Hemisphericity on the Composing Process of Twelfth Graders" was published in the Tapestry of Knowledge, a collection of teacher writings for which she received an award for Excellence in Research from the Virginia Beach City Public schools. In addition, her poem, “The Gift,” was published in Virginia Writing, Longwood University. She was the editor for a collection of teacher writings published by The Tidewater Virginia Writing Project, Old Dominion University. She received her B.A. in English, her M.A. in Humanities, and her Ph.D. in English Education. She taught Twelfth Grade Honors English at First Colonial High School in Virginia Beach where she also established and coordinated the Legal Academy. She is the recipient of the Virginia Technology Teacher of the Year award from IBM and Technology and Learning Magazine. Pierson is currently writing "Night and Fog" a historical novel on the Norwegian Resistance Movement during WWII and a second psychological thriller, "These Hands." She is married, has three children and eight grandchildren.