Born May 14, 1953 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to parents Ernest Austin Huckabone, Jr. and Nancy Margaret Binder Huckabone. She lived her early life on a farm in Kane, Pennsylvania and later in Johnsonburgh, Pennsylvania and Waukegan, Illinois. The family moved to Florida when she was in first grade and settled in the small town of Sanford, Florida. Her parents read adult novels and she would get in trouble as a youngster for sneaking them from the bookcase and reading them. Her parents were responsible for introducing her to poetry around age eight and she wrote her first poem at age twelv...