Tina has an anthropology degree and learned to recognize the differences - and similarities - between people's cultures, religions and ways of life. Combined with her love of science fiction, both have combined to give her the spark to imagine alternate characters, cultures, creatures, places and joys and struggles. Her first novel, “Alysa of the Fields,” portrays a new world in which Tina uses all the aspects of being "human," but in which the inhabitants clearly are not. Tina would like to communicate with others who love science fiction. more...