About the Author

  I’m the author of the YA fantasy novel Guile, as well as various science fiction and fantasy short stories and some sf poetry. I love writing inventive settings, alien or animal characters, unique magic systems, and adventure with light touches of humor.

I grew up mainly in the San Francisco Bay Area, although I spent one year in Surrey, England and a good chunk of another in Newfoundland, Canada. I have a BA in Journalism from UC Santa Cruz and an MA in Linguistics from the University of Pennsylvania.

I’ve worked as a linguistic researcher, a website designer, and a software engineer for a natural language search company. Early on there was also that stint as a balloon twister.

After college in Philadelphia I lived in Edinburgh, Scotland, for two years. I’m now back in the Bay Area with my husband and two kids.