Tessa holds many extremely expensive pieces of paper from universities and teaches at high schools and community colleges to pay for them. She'd like writing to also help pay for them, but she is only just returning to the fiction game after a few years off to focus on teaching. Tessa is a Phoenix, Arizona native and enjoys spending her free time writing, reading, playing with her dogs, doing all things geeky, and dressing up in historical costumes to live in the past.