About Me

I originally started blogging when I left the country to spend the summer studying creative writing in Scotland (and  stalk make pilgrimages to the places where J.K. Rowling wrote Harry Potter).

Originally the blog was to help me keep track of my Scottish adventures and assure my mom I was still alive (this required blogging everyday). But it soon became a blogging obsession and I've been blogging my writing journey ever since.

When I'm not writing, blogging, tweeting or writing parodies, I work as a children's librarian and teach college level writing and psych classes. I've also worked as a professional belly dancer, social worker, and pre-school teacher.

I graduated from Cornell University in 2005 with a BA in Religious Studies and Psychology and I earned my MA in English from Arcadia University in 2009.  At Arcadia, I met my critique group in a Writing for Children class, and the four of us now blog together at The First Novels Club.

I'm repped by Laura Rennert of the Andrea Brown Literary Agency.

And I'm vegan.

No, really.

:-)