I was born in Iowa City and spent my early childhood on a hippie commune just outside of town.
I grew up in Washington State and then eventually found my way back to Iowa City for grad school.
I was obsessed with Val McDermid's Tony Hill and Carol Jordan books, delightfully twisted stuff.
I love the fact that we are surrounded by this spectacular natural beauty that routinely strikes us dead. Hikers walk off into the woods and are never seen again. And still we tug on our fleece and skip off into the wilderness, not a care in the world.
I've written books for awhile, but always on a pretty small scale and always pretty self-indulgent. I chose projects that I thought would be really fun to work on and found friends to work on them with me, and it was all about the process.
I'm a sucker for a screwed-up protagonist. We all have issues.