I grew up in a lower working class family in the 1980's with a very nuclear family. I was raised conservatively by a Christian stay at home mother and a blue collar father. Escaping into books and into my own writing was the only place I felt I belonged most of my life. Not realizing that I was gay until I was in my 20's- before that I could acknowledge to myself only that I was possibly bisexual- I always felt like something was missing and very, very wrong with me but I never knew what. I had been writing since I was 8 years old, stories filled with places and scenarios in which I b more...