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My early childhood was spent all over the place. My family moved from California to Nevada to Pennsylvania
to Virginia because of my father's business. We also spent a lot of time in India and in Europe, but I was a little tyke so
my memory of that time is patchy. The memories I have traveling with my parents are: getting lost in a mall in Spain, walking
up a lot of stairs at an ashram in India and urgently needing to pee, sneaking out of Yugoslavia as barricades went up and
tanks rolled down the streets, and that it rained a lot in Poland. I had a happy childhood. I was very much loved.
I was on the newspaper staff in junior high, where
I wrote several unremarkable articles. I won third place in a short story contest at school. I also had my first poem published
in one of those anthologies that make you pay for a copy.
In high school, I took advanced English classes.
I went to college a year early, attending first the community college, then the university. I completed the honors program
at my community college.
In 2006 I studied abroad in Prague, and spent a couple months backpacking through
Europe. During that time, I touched a mummified crusader, I survived a bomb scare in Dublin, I fell in the Grande Canal in
Venice, I slept in a bush in Paris, I watched protests in Budapest, and I cage-danced in Berlin. When I wasn't lost, involved
in shenanigans, or writing on my travel blog, I was attending some of the best theater in Central Europe.
While
in college I wrote for the local news radio station and for a couple local newspapers. In 2007, I received a certificate of
merit from the National Hearst Feature Writing Competition for my cover story "Invisible Victims". I graduated from
California State University, Chico in 2008 with a B.A. in journalism and a minor in theater.
I currently
live in the San Francisco Bay Area with my husband, Sean, and our two cats, Dr. Jones and Jane Austin. I am working on
my first novel.
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