Brief Author Bio:

It started with Sunshine Gazette and Pizza Cat Magazine. (If you know what Pizza Cats are, I love you.) The former was a newsletter for family members. The latter was about the pretend world that my cousin, sister, and I roleplayed in as little kids.

In third grade, I wrote my first book. I only remember that it involved dalmatians. My classmate Sherry-Lee and I co-wrote and co-illustrated it. We became classroom celebrities.

During middle school, I got heavily into fan fiction and wrote about other people's characters and worlds. Once I started high school and then college, however, I started taking my writing more seriously and began writing novels and short stories with my own characters in my own worlds.

I plan on finishing writing Secondhand Mom by the end of the month, and am open to any inquiries regarding publication. (I've gotta try, right?) I have had two short stories published in my college literary magazine, Fresh Ink (2007, 2008), and had a poem published in the Anthology of Poetry by Young Americans (2002).

I can be contacted by email at elizawhat@gmail.com, and I write a personal blog at http://perpetualsmile.net. Happy noveling!