About Mitzi

I was born in San Antonio, Texas, on February 9, and moved to El Paso with my family when I was just one year old. I spent the next eighteen years there with my parents and three brothers, enjoying what I remember as an idyllic childhood. Our family seemed to be involved in every sport imaginable, and I have vivid memories of rushing from gymnastics meets to band practice, football and baseball games, and finally to the golf course. Looking back, I have to say my parents were superheroes.

After high school, my family moved to Houston, but I found a job in San Antonio and remained there, living with my grandmother until I married John Kelly in 1981. I discovered that I had a talent for accounting, but I also enjoyed working in my husband’s construction business, where I could go from sitting at a desk with a calculator to spending the day on my hands and knees painting trim. When our son was born in 1982, life became even busier but he quickly became the supervisor of everything, happily watching it all unfold from his blanket.

Through every stage of my life, one thing has remained constant: my love of reading. From reading as a young girl during nap time to enjoying a book as an adult, getting lost in another world has always been one of my favorite ways to relax. That love eventually inspired me to write my first book, Classic Revenge. What began as a cozy mystery series later expanded into romantic fiction and fact-based biographical fiction. Much like my working life, my writing has taken me in many different directions and I believe there is no sense being tied down to one area of interest.