I am a 1990 graduate of Allegheny College in Meadville, PA. I majored in English, and wrote my first novel for my senior project. After graduation, I put the novel, Hawkmoon, and my writing aside for several years and moved to Leadville, Colorado, where I nurtured my earthy side working for the U.S. Forest Service. In 1997 I moved back to PA, and somewhere around that time began work on my second novel, Grace. Ten years later, I finished it and started farming it out to more...