bio

I’m a retired newspaper reporter and media relations coordinator, living in Seattle, a stone’s throw from Puget Sound.

I write fiction professionally.  I’m, an active member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America and an observer of human behavior.

I won the 2009 Writers of the Future competition, with my short story, Coward’s Steel, which appeared in the Writers of the Future 26 anthology, and I graduated the Clarion West writers workshop in 2010.  I’m currently attending the Launch Pad workshop at the University of Wyoming.

I am fanatic about the written word, oral story-telling, corny jokes, traditional jazz, open water, lighthouses, sad country songs and all things to do with motion pictures.

I am a one-time news reporter, media relations coordinator, property manager, mail carrier, postal supervisor, corrections officer and improvisational comic.

I am a child of Joe and Mandy; sister, parent, friend, lover, partner and human being.

I am, by last count, K.C. 4.0