Weezie Mackey

Weezie was previously the associate director of Marketing and Communication. Prior to her work in marketing at Rice Business, she was a writer and editor with Webster’s Dictionary, Encyclopaedia Britannica, Tootsietoy, Rotary International, and the Williams College Museum of Art. Weezie is the author of the young adult novel, Throwing Like a Girl, nominated as Best Young Adult Book by the Texas Institute of Letters in 2007. She earned a B.A. in English from Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, and an M.F.A. in creative writing from American University in Washington, D.C. Weezie taught creative writing to kids through Writers in the Schools and now owns and operates a shared office space called Origin Cowork. She lives in Houston with her husband, two sons, and three dogs.