Richelle Putnam
Richelle Putnam is the special features director for Southern Writers Magazine, a freelance journalist and local historian based in Meridian, Mississippi. She is a Mississippi Arts Commission (MAC) Literary and Teaching Artist and member of the Mississippi Alliance for Arts in Education and National Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) among other arts organizations. John Aycock is an Army veteran and illustrator. Growing up in Mississippi, John won art awards in school and from the Meridian Museum of Art. After serving in the infantry for over six years deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan, John returned to the United States to start a family, finish his college education and focus on his art.
