Last Updated May 9, 2025
According to my family, I began stringing words into sentences as soon as I was able to talk. I have clear memories of sitting with my mother during and after the Great Blizzard of 1978. She was drawing to pass the time while being cooped up, and I began dictating stories to her about the drawings. Within a few months, I was writing my stories down myself. In fact, I can’t remember a time I didn’t tell stories.
In my teens, I got serious about learning writing craft. But it wasn’t until the second half of my twenties that I began sharing any work outside my immediate family. My first completed work was a piece of Star Trek: Voyager fan fiction, and it got a much better reception than I’d expected. This early success encouraged me, and I’ve been sharing my work ever since. My fan fiction is posted at An Archive Of Our Own.
I began writing original fiction in grade school; in fact, I wrote it before I wrote fan fiction. But, because I’m an outsider (self-taught about literature and writing) and because I had a lot of other things going on, for a long time I never seriously pursued it. My first attempt at publication came in 2003 and met with failure. After that, I stuck to fan fiction for several years.
I eventually found my writing communities via NaNoLanta and Signum University’s SPACE Creative Writing sector; and in 2025 I self-published my original short story, “Whitewood.” While it is the first story I’ve published, it is far and away not the first I ever wrote. It also is not going to be the last I ever write or publish.
I don’t write because I want to. I write because I have to.
My husband is author Michael Ferrara, and we currently make our home in metro Atlanta, Georgia, along with a rescue cat full of tortitude. During my spare time, I enjoy photography, needlework, gardening, and hiking.
Current projects include a novella (tentatively called “The Perfect Daughter”) set in The Iron Rose universe. I expect it to be ready around mid-2026. I am also working on a sequel to my fan fiction novel, Standing in the Dark, with a similar planned time frame; and there are some other, smaller, projects in process as well.