Donetta Garman is the author of "Growing Up Ugly" (Tate Publishing, 2008) and a wife of a rural church pastor.

Donetta has been published in Kansas City Magazine, The Missouri Otter, The Osage Chigger, The Clinton Daily Democrat, Sedalia Magazine, Catch On to Clinton Magazine and The St. Clair County Courier.

She grew up in a small town in Colorado and has also lived in Texas and Missouri. Her jobs have included waiting tables, doing dishes, babysitting, working in a feed lot, cooking, stuffing brochures, selling real estate, working in an office for a division of Forbes Magazine, illustrating for other authors, free lance writing, newspaper reporting, newspaper ad layout and modelling. Most recently she owned several retail businesses and a tea room. Now she has turned her attention to helping others establish businesses, writing, church activities, antique selling, internet sales and working in a real estate office.

She currently resides in Osceola, Missouri with her husband of twenty one years, Gar Garman, on an idyllic spot in the Ozark foothills. The Garmans have a son Jeremy and a daughter Sheridan. She also has two step-children, Jacquie Boisen and Gary Garman.