Working with words has been a major part of D. K. Graham’s career as she worked as a proofreader and classified advertising salesperson for several newspapers across the nation, and as a temporary line editor for the Petoskey (Michigan) News Review.
She holds a certificate of completion from the Parish School of Classified Advertising, where she learned copywriting for successful advertising.
She was also the editor and publisher of the school district newsletter for the Hiawatha, Kansas Unified School District 415, where she was secretary to the Superintendent of Schools for sixteen years.
During her junior high and high school years, she had poems published in the local (Camarillo Daily News) newspaper, was the historian for the Horizon Club (senior Campfire Girls) Camarillo, California chapter, and was responsible for having the monthly meeting articles published in the local newspaper. She was senior class editor of her high school year book.
She spent one year at Ventura (CA) Junior College, where she majored in English.
She is retired from her position as an administrative assistant for a geotechnical engineering and construction testing firm in Reno, Nevada.
K is an active member of the St. Joseph Writers Guild in St. Joseph, Missouri.
She has three grown daughters, three sons-in-law, and two grandchildren. She lives in Hiawatha, Kansas with her husband Walter. Her friends and family just call her K.
