I have been writing since I knew how to put words on a page, first with pencil, later graduating to pen, typewriter, and finally a computer. A child of the 1970s, a teenager of the 1980s, a college student of the 1990s, and a NaNoWriMo participant starting in the 2000s, fiction writing is something I continue to enjoy that also teaches me both about the person I was and the one I've become. I write both novels and short stories, though only the latter have been edited enough to share in my portfolio.