I was born in Albany, NY (upstate NY is where Thorn Jack takes place) and now live in Sarasota, FL. I briefly attended college in Minneapolis, Minnesota, before attempting life as a painter (the artsy kind). I've been writing since I was seventeen and juggling a few jobs while doing it. I wrote Thorn Jack when I was seventeen--as well as many, many other things over the years--and I took it out of the trunk (a literal trunk) two years ago, dusted it off, and began revising it...
