Marianne Gingher is the author of the novel Bobby Rex's Greatest Hit (which was made into an NBC movie), many short stories, and two memoirs, including A Girl's Life, about growing up in Greensboro. Her most recent book, for which she served as editor, is Amazing Place: What North Carolina Means to Writers. She is co-founder of Jabberbox Puppet Theater, a Greensboro-based venue for puppetry arts, and is currently Bowman and Gordon Gray Professor of Creative Writing at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she has taught for many years.