AUTHOR BIO: CARMEN GOLDTHWAITE
2010 Thomas Pl
Fort Worth TX 76107
Web: www.carmengoldthwaite.com
H. 817-737-6958
M. 817-726-0412
Email: carmengoldthwaite@sbcglobal.net
Carmen Goldthwaite, career journalist and syndicated investigative reporter, bent those skills
into a spade to unearth stories of Texas women ranchers, lives and tales little known or long forgotten.
She’s written their stories in Texas Ranch Women: Three Centuries of Mettle and Moxie (2014) and Texas
Dames: Sassy and Savvy Women Throughout Lone Star History (2012). She’s a popular speaker to
Women’s Clubs, Daughters of the Republic of Texas chapters, Foundations, libraries and archives.
She teaches creative writing, including narrative nonfiction, at SMU and serves as a director and
vice president-elect of Archives of Women of the Southwest at SMU DeGolyer Library and as Writer-inResidence, TCU Schieffer School…Community Journalism.
The award-winning short story writer and journalist and author of top-selling Texas Ranch
Women: Three Centuries of Mettle and Moxie and Texas Dames: Sassy and Savvy Women Throughout
Lone Star History, now in its 7th printing, thrives on teaching and writing. “A writer who teaches writing
never retires, we just change forms,” she says.
In 2013 she won “Best in Short Fiction” in a national competition while her novel, Whispering
Spirit, made its way to “Finalist” in two national contests. Her latest essay, “Night Bull,” appeared in
Chicken Soup of the Soul: Miracles Happen that hit bookstores, Feb. 4 2014. In 2012, a story by Carmen
about her mother, “Burgers and Butterflies,” appeared in Chicken Soup of the Soul: The Magic of
Mothers and Daughters.
Other publishing credits include Wild West, True West, American Cowboy, Fort Worth Texas
Magazine, Persimmon Hill, and Latitudes & Attitudes. She also has written numerous “how to write”
pieces for Writers Guide to 2010, 2011 and 2013 editions. She’s been published in The Way West and
Wild Women of the Old West anthologies. Earlier, her investigative reporting led to statewide awards
and syndication with Scripps-Howard News, topping off a 20-year newspaper career.
Drawing on years of experience, Carmen loves to pass on the tips—and excitement—to other
writers as “writer-in-residence” at her alma mater, TCU’s Schieffer School of Texas Community
Newspapers program; in SMU’s creative writing program; in her home with small groups, and at
conferences and seminars.
The Fort Worth, Texas native is proud of her heritage as a “Seventh Generation Texan.” As such,
the author of Texas’ women’s stories has become popular on the Texas History stump, telling these
stories to the likes of the Daughters of the Texas Republic, Westerners International corrals; Daughters
of the American Revolution; various Women’s Clubs in Texas, and Colonial Sons & Daughters. She has
enjoyed responsive audiences at archives and museums, such as Big Spring’s Museum, UTA’s Library and
Archives; SMU’’s DeGolyer Library and TCU Women Exes.
CG author bio/August 2015
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