Constance grew up mainly in the San
Francisco Bay Area, with one year spent in Surrey, England and a
chunk of another spent in Newfoundland, Canada. She studied
journalism at UC Santa Cruz, where she hiked to class through redwood
forest, explored secret caves, and helped edit the college newspaper.
Later she earned an MA in Linguistics at the University of
Pennsylvania, and stayed on in Philadelphia working on a linguistic
research project before getting sucked into the brand-new world of
website design.
After Constance met her husband, they
moved to Edinburgh, Scotland for two years, where she morphed into a
software engineer. Just as she'd acclimated to saying “beeta
testing” and “proh-cessor,” she and her husband returned to the San Francisco Bay Area to work for a natural language search company.
Constance now lives in the Bay Area with her husband and two children, and is enjoying ever-increasing
time to write the kind of stories she's always loved. Her published
science fiction so far has all been set on alien planets, and often
told from alien viewpoints (including reptilian, mammalian, and
crustacean analogues.) In writing fantasy, she's attracted to
inventive, nonstandard settings, light touches of humor, and just
pure adventurous fun. Constance's writing also shows the influence of
her love for mysteries.
