Leona Koehn Nichols: 4 books

Leona Koehn Nichols was born into a loving Holdeman Mennonite family and grew up within the Mennonite community, being very much a part of this ultra-conservative culture. Her parents were devout and committed to their church, but were also balanced in their views of what it meant to follow Jesus....

Leona Koehn Nichols was born into a loving Holdeman Mennonite family and grew up within the Mennonite community, being very much a part of this ultraconservative culture. Her parents were devout and committed to their church but were also balanced in their views of what it meant to follow Jesus. Raised...

Leona Koehn Nichols remembers an idyllic childhood with parents who loved them, and a mom who knew how to make it fun to be a child. She taught English classes for junior high and high school, always with great passion for poetry and other literature. Writing has always been an activity that is important to her.

Hello! My name is Leona Nichols and I love poetry. I fell in love with poetry early in my life, mostly because my mother loved it. She would cut out poems from the newspapers and paste them in scrap books. Later, my 6th grade teacher would have us memorize poetry while we waited for the closing bell...