She is both a writer and an artist. She began her career as a city desk reporter for a series of small town newspapers. Later, as a stay-at-home mom, she wrote poetry and fiction for national markets with some success. She is author of From the Suburbs With Love, a series of interviews with poets for cable TV in the San Francisco Bay Area. Following a sojourn of five years in Saudi Arabia and an abrupt evacuation in 1967, she began writing book-length works. After several years of disappointing results, she turned to her second discipline, art. As a visual artist, her work has been exhibited on five continents and in most major cities across the United States. She was one of 300 women world-wide invited by Arizona State University to show work at the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, China. Returned to writing as her primary interest, she writes daily. She calls her work love stories for those with a passion for life not dulled by age.
“I write because nothing else so fully engages my interest. Could any one do this? I think you need to see the world with particular sensitivity. I think you need to be ambitious to the point of dogged determination and accept rejection as a learning tool.
“My favorite fictional characters are the ones who go out on a limb and start sawing because they believe it is the right thing to do. I love the heroines in Charles Frazier’s Cold Mountain and Barbara Kingsolver’s Poisonwood Bible, and especially I love the heart wrenchingly human people who live within the books of John Steinbeck and Kent Haruf.” Eunice Banks lives in Grass Valley with one husband and one cat named Grover, who runs the show. |
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