Featured Alumni

Nancy Turner's name may be familiar to you as a Southern Arizona writer.  WIth two published historical novels and a third slated for publication in 2005, Nancy's career is soaring.  An older student, Nancy says she never dreamed she could become a published writer, but her teachers at Pima gave her the belief in her ability and the courage to go for it.  Her first novel, These Is My Words, set in and around Tucson in the 19th Century, was published in 1998 while Nancy was earning her AA degree at the College.  She went on to earn a BFA at the University of Arizona while working on her second novel, The Water and The Blood, set in Texas and California during WWII.  Nancy is effusive in her praise of PIma's writing program and is now "giving back" by teaching at a Writing Weekend Workshop on writing and researching the historical novel.