T.J. McGuinn is a city girl, a bookworm, a film buff, and a bird lover. She once traveled overland from Colorado to Chile and back, spent time with the Tarahumara Indians of Northern Mexico, and lost herself within the community of writers and artists in the Cuban provinces. Though she will always be a gypsy boho at heart, she now lives a relatively predictable and parasite-free life in San Francisco with her husband and small son. McGuinn's young adult novel, The Waking Moon, which garnered over a million reads in two months on Wattpad.com, is finally available as a Kindle Select ebook.