I was born on Halloween night and spent my formative years on a commune in northern California’s backwoods. A childhood without television gave me a great love of books and the worlds I found in them. I wrote my first book, an adventure story starring my cat, at the age of seven. Sadly, that work is currently out of print, but see the Fiction page for current and upcoming publications. I am a longtime practitioner of Ashtanga yoga, have no tattoos, and live on Orcas Island, upper Washington state, with my husband, author and illustrator Mark Ferrari, along with seventeen twenty orchids*, baskets of interesting seashells, a frog-and-koi (and sometimes otter) pond, and slightly fewer books than this time last year.

Should in-person appearances become a thing again, you’ll find mine here.

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*No, I don’t have an orchid problem, why do you ask?