 Maxine Thompson An award-winning writer, Maxine worked as a Child Protective Services worker for twenty-three years in the inner cities of Detroit, then Los Angeles, but her first love has always been writing. She attempted her first novel, The Hidden Sword, at the age of 16, when she was the first Black student to integrate St. Francis High, an all white school, in Traverse City, Michigan in 1967. She has self-published 2 novels, The Ebony Tree and No Pockets in a Shroud. From 1982 to 1986, she won many poetry awards. In 1989, Ms. Thompson won $1,000 in Ebony's first writing contest for her short story, Valley of The Shadow. In 1995, she received a PEN Award for her novel, The Ebony Tree, and an International Black Writer's Association award for her short story, The Rainbow. She received certificates of merit for outstanding achievement in Writer's Digest's Self Publishing Contests in 1995 and 1997. She has had many poems, short stories, and articles published in e-zines, national magazines and anthologies. Maxine Thompson has also authored 2 ebooks, How To Market, Sell and Promote your book Via Ebook Publishing and a Short Story Collection entitled, A Place Called Home.
In 1999, Maxine Thompson created On The Same Page, an Internet column for new and self-published writers. She also writes monthly Internet columns for Black Women in Publishing, Career Magazine, and The Black Market. She has written book reviews on Netnoir, one of the largest Black sites on the Internet. This brings exposure to other writers on her webzine. She has had many articles and short stories published off-line in anthologies, as well as on-line in e-zines.
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