Photographer Marita Gootee teaches at Mississippi State University in the Art Department. She was born in Jasper, Indiana, but has called Starkville, Mississippi home since 1986. Gootee earned her bachelor’s degree from the College of Mount Saint Joseph in 1981 and her Master of Fine Arts degree from Indiana State University in 1985.
Gootee was awarded a fellowship grant from the Mississippi Arts Commission in 2010 and 2015.