Education
University of Mississippi.
University of Mississippi.
Kirkpatrick has a cum laude degree in journalism and English from the University of Mississippi. She became a freelance photographer in 1995, and since then received 175 of regional and national awards. Currently she have two books in print.
Lost in the Amazon: The True Story of Five Men and their Desperate Battle for Survival and Mississippi Office the Beaten Path which have been reprinted seven times.
She met her love, Stephen, in Peruvian Amazon and fell in love with him. Later on she returned to Machu Picchu in 1998 and had a wedding with him there.
Since that time they have visited the rain forest of Peru, but also have been everywhere in South and North America and even in the Middle East.