Tracy Million Simmons has been a member of Kansas Authors Club since 2000 where she joined as a D7 member from her then-home near Dodge City. She has been an active member of D1 (while residing in Topeka) and D2 (while residing in Emporia) and has served the club on the district and state level in a variety of capacities, starting with prose contest chair in 2004. She was the yearbook editor from 2006-2016, produced the newsletter for several years, became Assistant Financial Secretary 2017-2019, Financial Secretary 2018-2020, State Vice President in 2021, and State President in 2022. Tracy became the club's first (quarter-time) paid manager in 2022. In short, Tracy believes in the power of the literary community of Kansas and is proud to be associated with this 120 year-old organization.
Tracy celebrates a twenty-year freelance career spanning many aspects of the written word, from helping entrepreneurs with newsletters, marketing materials, and website design, to publishing more than 500 articles and essays in niche to national publications. She worked as an editor and on layout and design for assorted small press publishers and book packagers.
She is the author of Tiger Hunting, the 2013 J. Donald Coffin Memorial Book Award winner from the Kansas Authors Club, and A Life in Progress and Other Short Stories.
As the founder of Meadowlark Press (established 2014), Tracy has worked with more than 40 authors publishing books of poetry and prose, including five Kansas notable titles. Meadowlark is the home of the Birdy Poetry Prize and 105 Meadowlark Reader, a Kansas journal of creative nonfiction.
Tracy celebrates a twenty-year freelance career spanning many aspects of the written word, from helping entrepreneurs with newsletters, marketing materials, and website design, to publishing more than 500 articles and essays in niche to national publications. She worked as an editor and on layout and design for assorted small press publishers and book packagers.
She is the author of Tiger Hunting, the 2013 J. Donald Coffin Memorial Book Award winner from the Kansas Authors Club, and A Life in Progress and Other Short Stories.
As the founder of Meadowlark Press (established 2014), Tracy has worked with more than 40 authors publishing books of poetry and prose, including five Kansas notable titles. Meadowlark is the home of the Birdy Poetry Prize and 105 Meadowlark Reader, a Kansas journal of creative nonfiction.
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