About the Author

I think what a lot of people don't realize about writing is that it's not just ideas that come from inside someone's head. Whether a writer is willing to admit it or not, every character, every plot, every conflict, every failure and triumph, is us fighting to heal ourselves. This is why we call our books our babies and make jokes about how we don't want anyone we know to read them when it's not funny to us. Every word is a deeply personal struggle to process the times we were hurt, the actions we took that made us feel deeply ashamed of ourselves, the moments we got things we didn't feel we deserved, both good and bad. Every plotline is an expression of what we find revolting and beautiful about ourselves and humanity. In the words we write, lies a map of who we are at the core of our soul. The process by which we pull literature from the ether simply does not allow it to be anything less. 

 

I was born in Portland, Oregon. 

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As a child, I was both gifted and undiagnosed ADHD, and I was raised in a a family that was a grab bag of all the kinds of abuse. Writing was always in my soul, because there were things inside me that needed to come out. I wrote my first novella at the age of eight. I was on my way to the beach, and the ninety page work of art was about a family who is driving to the beach and notice that they are being followed.

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I wrote a lot of fantasy as a child/teen/young adult. As I got older, I loved psychology (I bought a psychology 101 textbook at Goodwill when I was eight and fell in love), Australia, reading, and eventually picked up lucid dreaming as a hobby. 

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Prior to college, the only year of school I attended was the third grade. I was "home schooled," which is often a great thing, but for my parents it meant that they couldn't get me out of bed in the morning, so I dropped out of school and did no school work of any kind. I later got my BA in psychology and a MS in education. 

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I love to travel and often end up moving or visiting some new place, on a whim. I've lived in Oregon, Washington, Texas, Minnesota, and Australia. I've visited every state and many other countries, some long-term. My first love and first kiss was in Australia, and I hope to move there for good someday. My heart has always been drawn to the country for reasons I don't understand.

 

I have written eleven books in the Lost the Sky Again series, and am working on book twelve's first draft currently. The Sleep Song is the first book in the series and can be purchased now. The second book in the series, Pure Morning, will be released on May 29th, 2025.

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