ABOUT US

JC Walkup holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Texas and is currently enrolled in the Great Smokies Writing Program at the University of North Carolina, Asheville.

JC served Mountain Writers of North Carolina as president, vice-president, treasurer, program coordinator and workshop presenter and organizer during the past eight years. Currently she represents Haywood County on the North Carolina Writers’ Network. She is a member of The Writing Sprites of Asheville, The North Carolina Writers Network, Sisters in Crime, Netwest and The Redliners critique group.

She served as President and Vice President of Friends of the Haywood County Library and published The Paper Clips newsletter for this group for several years.

During thirty-three years of corporate life, JC managed writers and designers to produce development plans, specifications and designs for aircraft for Vought Aircraft Company and Northrop-Grumman. At Bell Helicopter, she was the Administrator of the Engineering Department for several years. While there, she raised a record breaking million and a half dollars for The United Way and the Humanities Fund for the Ft. Worth district using less than ten thousand dollars and many volunteers.

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JC's partner in Haywood High Country Special Events is Buffy Queen, a UNC-CH graduate, screenwriter, filmmaker, publicist and editor. Buffy is currently sharing the Safe Dates program with middle and high school students in Haywood County, is recently married to Jimmy Harvey and they enjoy the trials and egg-citement of living on their own little "farm-ette" in the Dellwood (Maggie Valley) section of the county, with chickens, Dexter cows, dogs and cats.