Allyson Deese is an author and a poet as well as a student majoring in Medical Office Administration. She resides in North Carolina.  The twenty-two year old has been writing poetry for most of her life and has now began penning her poetry into the pages of her fictional stories of multiple genres.  "Discovering the Joy Within" is the author's first work of fiction to be published.  She is currently penning her very first fictional novel based in part on actual events in her life.  Please read more on Allyson by visiting her on my space.  www.myspace.com/allysondeese