Many's Stories

About the Book

     How would you like to sit on the floor with your grandmother and listen to her tell stories again? Old stories that she made up just for you?
     These are not great novels like Harry Potter or The Hobbit, these are small stories and poems, full of small memories and small adventures that were told with laughter and love.
     Many's Stories are just that, a grandmother's gift to her children, her grandchildren, and her great-children in hopes that they will never forget those special hours she shared with them so long ago.

About the Author

Joyce Pounds Hardy is a well-published poet, having won the Texas Writer's Recognition Award, a grant to publish her first book of poems, THE RELUCTANT HUNTER, in 1989.

Since then she has had two other books of poems published: FRENCH WINDOWS, Eakin Press, and ROADS TO FORGOTTEN TEXAS, coauthored with photographer Tommy LaVergne and published by Texas Review Press, 2006. She has also published a non-fiction book entitled SURVIVING AUNT RUTH, Vignettes Of A Caregiver's Struggles Or How To Keep Laughing When You want To Cry.

She has been chosen a Juried Poet in the Houston Poetry Fest six times  and a Guest Poet twice. She has been published in literary journals and magazines, as well as being featured reader at First Friday, Barnes and Noble, Brentano's, Border's, Texas Circuit, KTRU Radio, and the taping of her work for the Fondren Library at Rice University.

She has studied creative writing and history of art at The Paris-American Academy, Paris, France, for six summers, reading her poetry in various venues all  over Paris. During the season, she writes a Football Column for the Rice Football Webpage entitled From The Distaff End Of The Bench.

Joyce Pounds Hardy is a native Houstonian, mother of five children--four boys and one girl, grandmother of thirteen, great-grandmother of three.  She calls herself a lucky, lucky lady.