Brief Author Bio:

A short story spun off from my 2005-2006 Nanowrimo project, The Traitor of Imlen, will be appearing in a forthcoming issue of the sword and sorcery magazine Black Gate (http://www.blackgate.com/). Watch for "The War of the Wheat Berry Year," in which Stisele of Imlen takes the irrevocable step that will make her an infamous villain in the city of her birth, and a hero to the conquered nation she was sent to govern with an iron fist.

Drollerie Press just published the first novella in my Rugosa Coven series, Closing Arguments, as an e-book. A sequel, Atlantis Cranks Need Not Apply, will be coming out this fall, and if they do well, we can hope for a print volume of three Rugosa Coven novellas in 2009. The e-books can be found at Fictionwise, Amazon, eReader, Mobipocket, and the Drollerie Press website (http://drolleriepress.com/bookshop/index.php?main_page=product_info&prod...). You can read an excerpt at http://drolleriepress.com/Authors/?page_id=106.

I'm an escaped academic, a grown-up army brat, a writer, an ambivalently entrepreneurial private tutor, a new mother, a longtime wife, an initiated Wiccan priestess, and a committed blogger (http://dr_pretentious.livejournal.com).

I have the longest attention span you'll find anywhere outside a Buddhist monastery.

My poetry has appeared in Calyx, Feminist Studies,Free Lunch, and Beloit Poetry Journal.

In my other life, when I was a scholar, I gave papers at the annual conferences of the Modern Language Association and the American Academy of Religion. I gave a paper at the Parliament of the World's Religions once, but I was scheduled opposite the Dalai Lama. Seriously, if you had to choose, would you go to hear the grad student from New Jersey, or the Dalai Lama? Yeah, me too.