The daughter of a naval doctor, so she is always embarrassed by a simple question: Where are you from? Born in Florida in 1958, she spent much of her youth traveling the northeast and south of the United States, including a brief but remarkable stay in Kodiak, Alaska in 1969. She began writing while still in high school in New Orleans, and since then no one has been able to stop her. She received a master’s degree in English? (Philology) from the University of St. Andrews University in Scotland
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The daughter of a naval doctor, so she is always embarrassed by a simple question: Where are you from? Born in Florida in 1958, she spent much of her youth traveling the northeast and south of the United States, including a brief but remarkable stay in Kodiak, Alaska in 1969. She began writing while still in high school in New Orleans, and since then no one has been able to stop her. She received a master’s degree in English? (Philology) from the University of St. Andrews University in Scotland in 1981, becoming one of the first Americans to complete a full course of study at this institution, and immediately found herself in the line of unemployed. She worked for many years as a nonfiction editor of medical and scientific books and journals, but when she moved to Hawaii in 1988, a number of new opportunities arose and she was a small worker in the woodworking industry, an office manager at the Big Island AIDS Project, an intern at a furniture restoration workshop and a jeweler's apprentice. By this time, however, her literary work had begun to yield some results, and in 1997 her first novel, Song in the Silence?, was published by Tor.
She currently lives with her beloved husband Stephen in a small town near Edinburgh in Scotland, and from her attic window, if she leans out of it and peers properly, you can see the towers of a nearby power station looming in the distance. If someone took care to put dynamite in a few uncomfortable houses that interfere with viewing, it would have excellent sea views. Any reasonable proposals will be considered.