Jean Neff Guthrie

Jean Neff Guthrie is the author of "Mystical Aria: Seeking the Gallion Queen" and the winner of Literary Classics 2017 Gold Award for Fantasy - Tween. Her poem, “Baler Twine,” written in honor of her father’s seventy-fifth birthday, won a National Cattlemen’s Magazine contest and was published in its March 2001 edition.

Guthrie has a BS in dairy science from Virginia Tech and a MS in mass communications from Virginia Commonwealth University. She has earned certifications as a Project Management Professional, ScrumMaster, and SAFe 4 Agilist.

She worked with author Tom Bird of Ambassador University in an intensive writer's program. She also attended writer's retreats on "Releasing the Author Within," "Editorial Eye," and "How to get on Oprah" with David Thalberg, Founding Partner of BrandStand.

Guthrie lives in Smyrna, Georgia, where she writes Mystical Aria sequels and works as an information technology senior project manager.