I write about smart girls, sad songs, and silly boys. I’ve been a tech industry worker bee, a library clerk, a speculative fiction journal editor, an exhausted grad student, editor-in-chief at an indie comics company, director of PR and marketing at a larger indie comics company, a freelance pop culture writer, and a graphic novel reviewer—but all the while I have been writing stories. I have lived all my life in the San Francisco Bay Area and currently share my space with my husband Brian Belew, son Mateo, daughter Mina, cats Jenny Flint and Philippa Purrip (Pippa), and a very lazy bearded dragon named Crackers. I graduated from San José State University’s creative writing program with a Master of Fine Arts degree and was the recipient of the Marjorie McLaughlin Folendorf Award and the AWP Intro Journals Award. I was born during a drought-ending rainstorm in November, but in life I am pleased with all sorts of weather. I love to look out windows and listen to The Smiths, have a deep, abiding fascination for Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Cleopatra VII, share a birthday with three of my favorite people—Voltaire, René Magritte, and Björk—and wish I could grow up to be like Gabriel García Márquez.