Cassandra Barnes has traveled all over the United States and lived in many places in this country: Alaska, Los Angeles, Chapel Hill, Raleigh, Maine, Virginia, West Virginia, Missouri, Illinois, Boston, Cambridge, western Massachusetts and a few other places, including some long-standing, well-organized communes. She has been writing since childhood and loves the gay and lesbian community. We are amazing. She graduated from Boston University magna cum laude and attended Harvard for graduate school. She now lives in the northern Maine forest overlooking New Brunswick. She enjoys using the landscapes in the special places she has lived and including gay community politics in her lesbian novels. Welcome to my world!