I write fantasy filled with monsters, romance and a little inspiration. I believe human beings are diverse and characters should be, too. Not all heroines are born with wicked sword fighting skills, killer bodies, the heart of a saint and a tough attitude. Not all males are alphas. Diverse characters, like diverse people, can still be heroes and make us smile, learn or fall in love. I was born in the tiny sunny island of Puerto Rico. My parents left Puerto Rico when I was five and we spent the rest of my childhood traveling between Dominican Republic and the Eastern United States. In 1998, I was accepted to New York University. There, I took four magical semesters of writing, history and humanities before immersing myself in a grueling dual-degree engineering program. When I rejoined the land of the living three years later, I had completed a degree in computer science with a math minor at New York University as well as a degree in computer engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology. I now live in New Jersey with my husband, two daughters, a son and my mother. Nightly we come up with stories, live out adventures and dance to tunes only we can hear.