Angie Wyatt will present to Southern Illinois Writers Guild at John A. Logan College at 7 p.m. Thursday, May 15, in the Terrace Dining Room Annex.

Wyatt, an Emmy Nominated Anchor/Reporter for WSIL TV3, started her career at WJHG-TV in Panama City, Florida. After moving on to WABU-TV in Boston, Massachusetts, she next worked at WKBW-TV in Buffalo, New York.

In 1997 before coming to Channel 3 in Southern Illinois at the end of that year, she was s a freelance reporter and producer with Expedition Outlook working on educational documentaries. She traveled and reported from both Alaska and deep in the Amazon jungle in South America.

Wyatt has also done freelance reporting for Court-TV, C-SPAN, CNN and ABC/Reuters-owned States News Service.

A native or Opp, Alabama, Wyatt was graduated from Troy State University in 1991 and studied government at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1996.

Wyatt and her husband Jon have one son named Wyatt, her maiden name. The son was early fascinated with farm equipment and one of his first words was "tractor." This resulted in Angie Wyatt writing Timmy the Tractor, her first children’s book .