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BIOGRAPHY
Born on a wintery
Sunday in Jackson, Michigan, the third of four siblings, my first sixteen
years were spent in the rolling landscape of Michigan. During that time,
my love of mythology began, as did my earliest efforts at storytelling.
The family moved from
Michigan to Houston, Texas, trading hills and lakes for the Gulf Coast
flatlands. High school and college were spent in the Lone Star State (Bachelor's
degree at the University of Houston, Masters at the University of Texas
at Austin, both in English literature). But Academia was not entirely
my cup of tea, and a long-standing love of theater, film and television
was singing a siren song in my brain.
A visit to Southern
California for a literary conference brought the revelation that Los Angeles
felt like home. Shortly thereafter, I moved to Los Angeles. During the
settling-in period, I worked at the LA County Law Library. But eventually,
I got the ideal job for a writer who wasn't making money (yet) from writing
- working on the staff of the game show Jeopardy!
I spent several years
as an editor, artist, and article contributor to the quarterly journal
Mythlore. Which helped prepare me for the experience of being the
editor of the first issue of the Shooting Star Comics Anthology.
These experiences have made me appreciate the work that editors do, but
it is not actually the profession I want to pursue.
Having found "my
place" in the world, I've continued pursuing various writing activities.
This has included having a number of scholarly papers published. When
asked "What do you write?" my usual answer is "Almost anything."
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