Richelle has been a successful freelance writer and editor for over 15 years. The Mississippi Secretary of State’s Office Commissioned her to write the history of the nine counties (Clarke, Kemper, Lauderdale, Newton, Neshoba, Leake, Smith, Scott, Jasper) in East Central, Mississippi, for the 2017 Mississippi Bicentennial book released December 2017. She co-wrote Was It Worth It, which won first place in the Tallahatchie Riverfest’s William Faulkner Playwriting Competition and performed several times on stages around Mississippi. Richelle also co-wrote Women of Potta Chitto and the soundtrack. The play showed on two community theatre stages, and she performed the soundtrack in venues around the state. She was the Special Features Director for Southern Writers Magazine and is currently the executive editor and writer for The Bluegrass Standard Magazine. Pif Magazine, The Copperfield Review, Birmingham Arts Journal, and several bestselling anthologies, including the several editions of the Cup of Comfort Series, have published her work. She has contributed to Parents & Kids Magazine, Social South, Portico, Well Being, eat. drink. Mississippi, and Mississippi Magazine. She earned her BS in Marketing Management at Western Governors University and her Master of Arts in Creative Writing at the University of North Alabama.
Read the Franklin County Times article/review on Richelle’s short memoir, “The Power of a Mother’s Love” published in A Cup of Comfort for Mothers and Daughters
Read Richelle’s flash fiction piece, Spirtfilled, at Pif Magazine
Read Richelle’s poem, Tallahatchie, in the Birmingham Arts Journal
Read Richelle’s Hattiesburg Celebrates Mardi Gras While Helping Children in Parents & Kids Magazine