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        Mosetta M. Penick Phillips-Cermak, Ph.D. lives with her two Labrador Retrievers, one black and one yellow, and two Siamese cats in West Park, Ohio.    Dr. Penick Phillips-Cermak, the mother of two, grandmother of two, and great grandmother of two, is a retired psychotherapist/counselor and a teacher of many years, who started writing short stories at the age of ten.

         Mosetta’s first short, short story was published in the local newspaper when she won first prize in a creative writing contest. In college, her literary essays and short stories were published in the colleges’ literary magazine, The Spectrum. Eventually, she rose to serve as editor-in-chief of the very same magazine.

        Over the years, she has taught everything from kindergarten through teacher education, English, psychology and sociology. She has attended numerous writers’ workshops, and is currently active in a critique group, has completed several other short stories, a children’s interactive picture book to teach educational concepts, and her first middle-grade children’s fantasy novel that she expects will be published soon.