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Drea Horton

Drea Horton Birth Name- Andrea Lyn Parmer

Origin Akron Ohio, U.S.

Genre(s) Poetry, Self help, Drama

Occupation(s) writer, poet,songwriter and nurse

Books-

A poetry of a book of my visions and dreams(2006) Her stars and stripes, A nurses' diary(2007 Author house

Influences.

Sisters- Tonia and Stephanie Grandmothers- Seffie Parmer-Margaret Owens Father- Andrew Wilson Mother Mary Hill Authors- Donald Goines, Agatha Christie Mya Angelou, Shakespear, Toni Morrison Music artists- Marvin Gaye, Erykah Badu, D'Angelo, Jill Scott Teena Marie, Roy Ayres and Michael Franks

Accomplishments

Editors choice awards for outstanding poetry (International poets society) June 2005, November 2006, May 2007 and Aug 2008 Licsensed nurse from 1986-present

Active-1986–present Drea Horton is known for her vivid imaginary skills with ability to draw in her audience. Her regal statute commands attention when she enters or speaks. A daughter of a nursing assistant she entered into the world of nursing at the age of seven. Full of compassion with a warm smile she would captivate and comfort those lives she temporarily touched. Born into a military family, her father a veitnam army veteran Drea was destined to become a humanitariun and this she shares in her writing. A graduate of W.Howard Nicol school of practical nursing of Akron ohio she has practiced nursing for the past twenty two years continuing her practice at a VA medical center in northeast Ohio. She is engaged and have three children and two grandchildren

Biography

Drea Horton born Andrea Lyn Parmer was born in Akron ohio to Mary Parmer and Andrew Wilson July 14th 1963. A middle child of three girls Drea was a quiet child and a loner with a kindred spirit. She began humming and singing songs at four making her own songs up along with poems at the age of five. Drea was introduced to the world of reading by auther Donald Goines at the age of eleven. Although Drea was forbidden to read Mr. Goines graphic adult books she managed to sneak them from her maternal uncle and read them. It was then that Drea began to travel with Mr Goines and other authors through their writing gaining the ability to see. It was then that Drea became a avid reader exploring many generes. Her reading would expand to writers such as shakespear, Egar Allen Poe, Agatha Christie, Maya Angelou,Steven King, Robin Cook and James Patterson to name just a few. Drea Horton began writing short stories and poetry becoming lost in her own world and work at the age of eleven. She knew she had a gift to write and worked very hard at it without much family support.This continued until she became the mother of her first daughter Tonia at fifteen years old then her second daughter named Andrea after her at sixteen. She continued her high school studies refusing to give up perfering only science,creative writing and english. Qccasionally she would write short stories on note pads, never quite recovering from her additional responsibilities as a young mother. She worked part times jobs, mothered her daughters, cared for her maternal grandmother and continued school putting her social life as well as her writing on hold. She graduated in 1982 from North high school, delivered her son Dominic in 1985 while in nursing school. In 1986 Drea graduated from W. Hpward Nicol school of practical nursing of Akron Ohio. After twenty years of marriage and a heartwrenching divorce Drea Horton began writing again with her children able to care for themselves and her grandmother no longer with her, she saw this as a chance to stretch out and spread her wings to do what she was destined to do in the beginning which was to write. This was short lived for she then cared for her ailing mother while also working caring for soldiers and veterans at the VA medical center until her mother past away in 2007. She penned a book of poems in 2005 at her mothers bedside and published it in 2006 vowing to never allow her work to be lost of forgotton again. Her first book A poetry of a book of my visions and dreams thus fianlly began her writing career. Drea began writing a book about relationships titled HE Told Me Why and between bouts of writers block and diversion she began to write poetry about her nursing experience as well as several of her nursing colleagues in caring for sodiers, veterans and civillians as well. This is how Her stars and stripes, A nurses diary was born. She published this book in April 2007 and have received rave reviews from her readers as well as many publications and honorable mentions. Her book was reviewed by cheif editor of Stars and Stripes news paper David Allen who described Drea as "an extraextroidinary women of gift". Drea continues working on her book titled He Told Me Why, subtitled So u say u can get a man but.. he just wont act right. This book she hopes to finish in November 2008