Boerner, Talya Tate: - Talya Tate Boerner draws on her rural roots to deliver readers back to a simpler time when screen doors slammed, kids tromped cotton, and Momma baked cornbread for supper every night. Boerner, a fourth-generation Arkansas farm girl, has been published in Arkansas Review, Ponder Review, and Writer's Digest. A graduate of Baylor University (with a degree in economics), she worked thirty years as a commercial lender in Dallas before returning home to Arkansas. Boerner lives in Fayetteville with her husband and two miniature schnauzers. Follow Boerner's blog Grace Grits and Gardening (www.gracegritsgarden.com) for tales of farming, gardening, and comfort food. Her second book, Gene, Everywhere, is forthcoming March 2020.