Bobbi A. Chukran has been a poet, artist, writer and photographer since she was very young. She was encouraged to follow her dreams by her grandfather, Howard Winston Allen, Sr., a Dallas landscape artist.

She's a fourth-generation Texas native (at least), and was born in Ft. Worth and grew up in Grapevine.

After graduating from the University of Texas at Austin in 1981 majoring in Studio Art and Design, she went on to exhibit at local art shows, galleries and gift shops. Bobbi has been exhibiting and selling her art and digital images online since 1996 and locally.

Bobbi has written poetry since her teenage years and has published a number of bestselling non-fiction books on the fiber arts and gardening as well as three educational non-fiction early readers for children. Her first novel, Lone Star State of Death, was published in 2006.

Since 1980, Bobbi has written for numerous national magazines and publishers and contributed artwork to them. Her periodic blog about her artwork can be read HERE.

Her writing blog, Grackle Stew Stories, can be found HERE.

A small selection of Bobbi's abstract paintings and mixed-media collages suitable for journal covers can be seen HERE.

Bobbi lives in Leander at the edge of the Texas Hill Country outside Austin with Husband Rudy and six cats.