I work with words every day, be it drafting, revising, making editorial changes, copyediting, page proofing, or daydreaming the next project. Originally titled SCRIMSHAW, it was published as EYES LIKE STARS. The summer of 2006, a friend dared me to write a novel, so I did. After graduation, I taught English at a French-American elementary school, started their Drama After School Program, and continued to write short stories. That won me two scholarships to University of CA, Irvine, where I continued to study theater and playwriting. Then I wrote, directed, and produced my own children’s play at the local community theater when I was sixteen. By the time I hit high school, I’d performed in more than a dozen productions. I was seven the first time we dyed my hair black for a community college musical, and the combination of writing, theater, and hair-color fundamentally altered my brain chemistry. About the same time I started writing, I also started performing in community theater. I started writing short stories in the first grade and stored them in a pink and purple unicorn Trapper Keeper.
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