Burrus, A. Embry: - Embry Burrus grew up in Columbus, Georgia and currently lives in Opelika, Alabama. For the past fourteen years, she worked in the Department of Communication Disorders at Auburn University as a clinical supervisor in speech pathology, and is now a full-time caregiver for her older sister, Margaret, who has Down syndrome. She is co-author of a textbook, Professional Communication in Speech-Language Pathology: "How to Write, Talk, and Act Like a Clinician", and has been published in "Byline", "Lake Martin Living" and "The Birmingham Arts Journal".