Personal Stories

About Me — Alicia Prater

More than a scientist

The author as a child circa 1985. Photo in possession of the author.

I have been a writer for as long as I can remember. We had creative writing projects in Kindergarten or 1st grade where we’d color in the car or some other general object and then write three sentences about it using the new words we’d learned for colors and shapes and sizes. I would fill the front of the page and the back of the…