The Field by Dodie Messer Meeks Among the many anxious well-wishers who wait with Hetty Bach outside the Intensive Care Unit where her husband Peter fights for his life, one of the group fears he just might wake up. About the author: Journalist Dodie Messer Meeks once covered Galveston for the Houston Chronicle and wrote Dr. Blocker's Seventy-Five Year History of the University of Texas Medical Branch, as Marcus Dickey, in an earlier life. When I Got Dressed Again, a collection of her poetry and drawings, was published in 2001 by The Arts Alliance Center of Clear Lake. Her book, Pretty Little Girls and Other Men's Wives was published in 2003 by Panther Creek Press. She is at work on her second Hetty Bach story. click here to learn more about the author ISBN 0-9718361-4-0 Mystery / $17.95

Here's what others say about The Field

"A tale of murder and the unpredictable twists of human justice. Meeks’s characters, ripped full-blown from the fabric of the actual, are helpless puppets dangling from the thread of passion, jerked helter-skelter by the cruel puppeteer of fate. In seamless, elegant prose, she renders a world of spiritual and emotional chaos, assuaged momentarily by the mystical balm of art."
-Larry D. Thomas, winner, 2001 Texas Review Poetry Prize and 2002 Violet Crown Book Award Finalist

"What a fun and intelligent read! Her wit and elemental humanity sparkle in surprising bursts and lift the story far beyond the ordinary."
-The Reverend Mark and Reverend Becky Edmiston-Lange, Emerson Unitarian Church, Houston

"Thought to be top-notch on the cellblock. Ms. Meeks’s work enables me to escape for a few hours."
-Ed "Mongo" Hamilton # 875302, Coffield Unit, Texas Department of Criminal Justice

About When I Got Dressed Again:

"I like these poems. They have wit, a good eye, sadness, here and there a lilt."
-Larry McMurtry, 1986 Pulitzer Prize for Lonesome Dove

"Something should have been done years ago in the interest of public tranquility to protect innocent bystanders from this zany disturber of the peace, but it’s too late now -- Dodie Meeks is still at large..."
-Leslie Mellichamp, The Lyric editor 1974-2000

"Dodie Meeks’s poetry is not only witty and wise, but it that rare thing, a really original voice. It creates that odd oxymoron -- serious humor..."
-Bradley Strahan, Professor of Poetry Georgetown U., VIAS editor