In 1999 she received The Conch Republic Prize for Literature for her body of work and her dedication to encouraging the talent of new writers.
Her numerous nature essays have appeared in several anthologies, including "Uncommon Waters", "The Gift of Trout", "Headwaters", "A Different Angle", "Randy Wayne White's Ultimate Tarpon Guide", and "Growing Up in Mississippi", to quote a few.
[5] The competition, which is open to U.S. and international citizens, draws between 800 and 1,200 submissions annually from the United States and around the world.
During the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927, Rhodes played his guitar to his children as the floodwaters rose and eventually engulfed their farmhouse.
Hemingway's maternal aunt, Freda Lassiter, an accomplished artist, would later paint scenes of the farmhouse and the flood, a theme that would run through her work throughout her life.