Bio
Born in 1975 amongst the tumbleweeds and oil derricks of West Texas, I decided to spend six years of my life at Texas Tech University majoring in English, a language I’ve been speaking since diapers. Perhaps someday I’ll learn to talk it more good.
After receiving my M.A. in Creative Writing, I moved to Austin, the oasis of liberal thinking in Texas. I have a wonderful husband and three dachshunds who’ve learned not to bite when I dress them up for LARP re-enactments.
My first editing job while in college was – and I’m deadly serious here – editing telephone directories. That’ll teach you a thing or two about minutiae…and how to resist jabbing your red pen into your ear. My entire career has centered around books and publishing. I’ve worked as a print buyer, a director of curriculum research, a writer, an editor, a lover, a fighter, and now a senior editor for Houghton Mifflin Harcourt K-12 educational division, where I get to craft the classroom materials used to instill a love of writing into a whole new generation.
All the while, fiction has been my passion. Since I can’t see myself doing anything else while existing on this god-forsaken hunk of rock, I never intend to give up my writing. My dream is the same as every noob out there – to someday get paid to sit around in my bon-bon-encrusted housedress and bang out stories for the masses.
I am a storyteller. Always will be.
And I’m never giving up my housedress.
