Bio
When I was a kid, I wanted to be a wizard. Or a paleontologist. Maybe both.
I’m neither now, but magic and monsters are still my favorite things.
Born in Okinawa, Japan, while my Dad was on duty with the US Navy, I moved around throughout my childhood and traveled even more. I’ve lived in Japan, California, Kansas, and England, and visited 4 continents. If I could afford as many vacation homes as I wanted, I’d have one in New Orleans, Newcastle UK, Budapest Hungary, and Sydney Australia.
After graduating from the University of Kansas in 2003 with a degree in Gender Studies, I went on to graduate school for a Master’s in the same. Halfway through, I ditched my adviser in favor of Anglo-Saxon and Germanic epic poetry, because the blood, tragedy, and violence were much more civilized than academic in-fighting. I don’t have a graduate degree, but I did translate my own version of Beowulf!
Despite having traveled all over the world, I settled in Kansas where the sunsets are all in Technicolor, with my partner, two cats, and a mutant mutt named Grendel.
(picture by Natalie Parker.)