Emerging author Emily H. Keefer has written for the Journal Newspaper in Martinsburg, West Virginia, as a local columnist and is currently one of their full-time staff reporters. She has published over 250 bylined articles and written several feature sections in Around the Panhandle Magazine and Country Connections/Jefferson Magazine. Her first published article detailed her experience in the famous town of Odessa, Texas, home of the book and film Friday Night Lights. Soon to receive her bachelor of arts in English and a minor in education from Shepherd University, Keefer belongs to Sigma Tau Delta, an international English honors society; and Kappa Delta Pi, an international honors society in education. Keefer is a lover of reading, adventuring, and enjoying her life with her husband, Tyler, her dog, and her family in the mountains and on the rivers of West Virginia. Keefer hopes to continue to write simply to relate and inspire.