I'm a writer of novels, short stories, essays, magazine articles, and poetry. Most of my writing is in the realm of speculative fiction--fantasy, science fiction, and subgenres therein. Since technology hasn't created a way for me to beam fresh baked goods around the internet (yet), I invite you to instead browse my published material online in the bibliography.

The Catch A Star As It Falls Blog is updated several times a week with publication news, cookie recipes, and somewhat-coherent ramblings.

If you're curious about who I am, head over to the biography section. That's also where you find out how to contact me.

To summarize my background: I'm a girl from Hanford, California (and no, that's not near L.A. or San Francisco) who married a Navy sailor and moved from coastline to coastline. Now that sailor is a happy civilian, and we're settled down in scalding-hot Arizona. Our son is number-obsessed and our cat is large enough to create gravitational pull. I bake. I write. I dance, badly.

Welcome to my site! As always, lots of stuff going on...

Recent publications

My story "Clementine, Who Swims with Mermaids" is featured in the Oceans issue of Penumbra.

I've had quite a few poems published recently, including "The Truth About Fairies" in Star*Line 36.2, an autobiographical poem "autism" at Every Day Poets, a steampunk poem "Mice" in issue 28 of Mythic Delirium, and "Cloud Shapers" in Illumen.

In the realm of nonfiction, I have two new stories: "We Love Vermont" is in Chicken Soup for the Soul: Raising Kids on the Spectrum and "Queries, Agents, and Insomnia" is in Chicken Soup for the Soul: Inspiration for Writers.

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• International Thriller Writers
• Codex Writers
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