Author: Patricia Samuelsen

Join your Felice Gerwitz your host, and her guests Patricia and Meagan Samuelsen a mother-daughter team writing in Sugar Land, Texas (a suburb of Houston).

Patricia Samuelsen earned a B.A. in history in 1978 from The King’s College and a Master of Library Science from the University of Texas at Austin in 1980. She worked as an Information Specialist for the Regional Information and Communication Exchange at Rice University, and designed a data processing library for a drilling fluids company in Houston before becoming a full-time mom. The Samuelsens homeschooled their three children for 19 years. Since 2001, Patricia has taught classes for home-educated students in humanities and worldviews as well as Latin.

 Meagan Samuelsen was home-educated through high school. In 2009, she graduated from Grove City College with a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature and a minor in Theatre. She spent the following year teaching English as a second language in Trujillo, Peru. She is currently working towards a Masters of Science in Information Studies in the School of Information at the University of Texas at Austin. Read Meagan's observations on rhetorical devices in literature at the "Rhetorical Musings" blog on our website, www.writerstoolbox.net.