About Me: I am more than a reflection of what you see. I am complicated yet plain, insecure yet vein. I am fractious and composed, loved, and loathed. I am bitter also sweet, outlandish also discrete. You’ll find me candid and forward, however, silent and reserved, trusting, or doubting whichever is deserved.

My biography must begin with admitting that my personality mimics that of the eccentric Doc Brown from Back to the Future, with better hair. I am an inventor with one approved patent and am constantly driving my family crazy with new ideas. From creating and directing fundraising events such as Halloween and Cinco de Mayo road-races and princess tea parties to Sanitizing Cell Phone Wipes and Dog Scratch Bumper Guards, I keep them quite busy. Beyond that, I am a warrior of surmounting hardship, a YouTuber, and a best friend. On the academic side of life, I graduated cum laude with an associate’s degree in Science of Dental Hygiene in 1993. I became Mrs. Maine America in the year 2011. Now, into my ninth year of managing a large dental practice, I have come to terms that the real Tina Hendricks wants to live life outside of a dental office. Great Scott! I’m much too creative to spend another thirty-one years tending to manifestations of oral diseases. Until that day comes my creative outlets keep me sane to a socially acceptable degree. I maintain an online platform sharing my experience and coping mechanisms with oppression, neglect, poverty, and abuse.

I have a second completed novel—YA fantasy, detailed blueprints for two more of WIDOW’S STONE, a memoir—The Collector, and pages of poetry. For the last five years, I have been involved with writing groups and classes offered through Writer’s Digest and Maine Writer’s & Publisher’s Alliance I have learned, and am still learning, how to perfect my craft which I have adored my entire life. My love of telling a tragic story with an uplifting outcome is a testament to my perseverance as a human being.

My writing style is visceral. I strive to excel in vivid descriptions of emotions and sensational aspects of experience drawn from my own past.

Born in Bar Harbor, Maine, to my sixteen-year-old mother, I grew up in extreme poverty. I visited the ocean often, played in the woods daily, embraced the fog, and counted the shooting stars—I’m up to thirty-three. In 1996 I married my first husband—the epitome of an abusive narcissist. We had a baby girl then soon divorced. I became Mrs. Maine in 2011 and attended the national Mrs. America competition held at the Greenbriar in West Virginia. I am a mother of one, wife to my wonderful second-husband and older sister to five siblings. 

I have worn many hats in my lifetime. Proud, angry, happy, sad. I’ve worn judgment, shame, hate, and sorrow too. Love is the hat I choose to wear most, and I embrace the others as alter egos lacking the love they deserve but could never host.

Introducing, Tina L. Hendricks the author and…

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Continue to dream, reach and redirect.

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