About Me — Joe DeRouen

I’m a father, a husband, a writer, a teacher, a reader, and more.

It’s me, squinting in the sun

I was born on a mountaintop in Tenn…oh, wait, that wasn’t me! I was actually born and raised in a very small town in Illinois called Carthage, moved to the massively big city of Dallas, Texas when I was a teenager, and now reside in the medium-sized city of Rogers, Arkansas. I’m a father, a husband, a writer, a…