I come from an academic family. Books were omnipresent in our home, and there were never any restrictions on what we children read. We had the advantage of owning no TV set until I was a teenager, so I did not grow up with that distraction. As a child, I considered books my beloved companions, and I've always admired the art of good writing.
In Denver, I work as a tutor of Spanish and German, a proofreader and editor, a translator, and a weight-training instructor, but love writing fiction and nonfiction as well. My formal education was mainly in English and foreign languages (four so more...
