I've been writing since I could hold a pencil and that's been a long time. Presently, I work as a legal secretary to pay the bills and I'm also a clergywoman in the Episcopal Church for the Diocese of California - I serve as the parish deacon in my neighborhood church and undertake a lot of outreach to the community, which is middle-to-poor working class. I'm a native of the San Francisco Bay Area and live in Berkeley. I was influenced to write by an older sister who told me to put my imagination to work and to stop bothering her. I started writing five-page novels complete with illustrations and sold them for a dime to our neighbors. Once in a while, I sleep. Early morning I wake and usually get an idea for a story.
