About

I grew up in the suburbs of Denver, then after graduating high school drove off to attend Arizona State University where I obtained a Bachelor of Arts in Film and Television Production with an emphasis on screenwriting. I studied under Stephen Geller who wrote the screenplay for the film adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut's novel Slaughterhouse-Five. He told me that my writing was "dark" but that he liked it. I'll take it.

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After graduating, I roamed a bit, working and living in Arizona, New Mexico, and Colorado. Then I landed a job working in Antarctica. I spent three austral summers for five months at a time working on the highest, coldest, windiest, most dangerous continent on earth. It was a ravishing atmosphere, and I know that in subtle ways, it has influenced my writing.

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Although I quit deploying, I continued to work for the U.S. Antarctic Program as a technical and web writer and editor. While working, I entered a graduate program at the University of Denver and obtained a master's degree in Liberal Studies with Advanced Studies in Creative Writing.

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I married an Englishman, and after having a baby, I stopped working for the Program and began caring for my daughter fulltime. She is a quirky, kind, hilarious, complex girl who also happens to have neurofibromatosis-1 (NF-1), high-functioning Autism, and a little ADHD and OCD thrown in for kicks. I joke, but as any parent who ended up in "Holland" can appreciate, raising a child who has a disability is the most challenging thing I've ever done in my life. And I love her more than anything.

 

I live with my husband, daughter, a fiesty Vizsla, a stoic Russian Blue, and a kooky orange Tabby in the foothills of Colorado. I renew my vigor by hiking, camping, reading, and traveling.

 

I write to connect with others, I write for my daughter, and like so many writers, I write for the tranquility and clumsiness of the compulsion.