Carrie O'Neal is a native of Winchester, Tennessee and a 2000 graduate of the University of Mississippi.  She is currently in her second year of graduate school at MTSU and hopes to receive her Master’s degree in August, 2003.  She is a lover of Southern literature as well as modern British literature (but no thesis topic yet!).  Ms. O’Neal is a die-hard Ole Miss football fan, a Vanderbilt basketball fan, and enjoys writing, seeing live music, and her convertible.