About Marie Bookman
Marie A. Bookman is a New Orleans native. She was raised, primarily, by her Mother and her grandmother in the University section of New Orleans, Louisiana (known to some as “Uptown”).
She is a graduate of Loyola University, where she received a B.A. and then went on to obtain a Juris Doctorate degree (JD) from Loyola University School of Law.
She is currently a Civil Trial Attorney, a Magistrate Commissioner in Criminal District Court for the Parish of Orleans and an Adjunct Professor at Tulane University School of Law.
Her hobbies include reading, writing, sports, traveling, listening to music and movie watching, etc. She enjoys exercising, especially, yoga, cycling, tennis, long walks and swimming (seasonally). She also loves spending time with children and mentoring youths, whenever the opportunity presents itself.
Marie has always had a passion for writing, since she was a teenager. While she writes primarily poetry, she also writes short stories and other genre, but had never published any of her writings until after her community was devastated by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in August, 2005.
After losing her home and all of her possessions, during the storm, Marie returned to New Orleans to serve as a Magistrate Commissioner, as well as to assess her damages and begin the rebuilding process.
Her entire community had been destroyed and there seemed to be no real assistance in sight or understanding of how or even if the City would be re-built.
