Writing good fiction is, in many ways, like having a psychotic episode. You exist in a world completely divorced from your current reality. You hear voices inside your head and get friendly with people who are not, as far as the rest of the world is concerned, really there at all.
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"Why do you write?" a friend recently asked me.
"Why do you breathe?" I countered.
She thought for a moment.
"Because I have to."
"There's your answer."
Birth Place
*Boiling Springs*, PA USA
Accomplishments
WRITING
Clarke County Exemplary Writers Contest Winner
Wright State University, 1993 and 1994
Canterbury Tales Award
Boiling Springs Jr/Sr High School, 1996
For exposé titled “Silent Strength: The Status of Women in India’s Kerala State”--
Departmental Honors Award
Outstanding Senior Anthropology Student Award
Millersville University, 2000
PERSONAL
Semester Abroad in Kerala, India, 1999
BA in Anthropology/Women's Studies, 2000
Appalachian Trail Thru-Hike (GA - ME), 2002
Weekend Vagabond (co-owner, co-pilot of Volkswagen Westfalia camper van), 2005
Pacific Crest Trail Thru-Hike (Mex - Can), 2006
Contact Information
*Freelance / Fiction Writer*
266 Reynolds Mill Road
York PA 17403
USA
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