Local author and researcher, Marilyn A. Hudson, will do a presentation at the Stroud Public Library on the topic "UFOS OVER OKLAHOMA."
She has been called the 'genie of bizarre historical research' (Doug Dawgz Blog) and her fiction writing has been described as 'darkly poetic' (author Keith Pyeatt).
Marilyn A. Hudson has been a library professional in public, school, and academic libraries. Listed in the 1997 Who’s Who in American Colleges and Universities, she was the 2002 recipient of the OLA Outstanding New Librarian Award, and member of the Phi Alpha Theta Honor Society, Golden Key, and Phi Kappa Phi.
Her general research interests are in history, especially social, religious, and church history; women’s studies; mythology, folklore, and storytelling.
She started writing by authoring essays, articles, and editorials in a number of periodicals, serving as a contributing editor for two and as a newspaper stringer in Enid, Oklahoma. Over the years she has been newsletter editor for several organizational newsletters.
She has presented workshops, speeches. and shared stories to a diverse range of audiences - children to adults - and has kept them spellbound and engaged.
To better conduct research about the unidentified flying objects field, she joined MUFON, trained to become a certified Field Investigator, and served, briefly, as the Oklahoma State Director of the Mutual UFO Network.
Her fictional works include Foul Harvest and The Sword of Anath. Children's works Elephant Hips Are Expensive, Annie Oklahoma, and others. Also, The Bones of Summer, The Mound, When Death Rode the Rails, Noel Brooks, The Windows of Wesley, Stories Stage Center: A History of Oklahoma Storytelling and Oklahoma Bad Girls.
Her "UFO SKIES SERIES" includes Sooner Saucers, Sooner Saucers 2, UFOS Over Oklahoma, What Is That?, 1947: Those Saucy Saucers and 1965: The Summer of the Saucers.
She has several fictional works in process as well.
She received a B.A. in History and an M.L.I.S. from the University of Oklahoma.
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