I live with my husband and daughter in a one-stop-light town in northern-lower Michigan. Though I didn’t discover my love of books until I turned thirty, as a self-declared hopeless romantic, I have spent the past few years reading and writing stories with mostly happy endings. When not at my day-job or with my family, you’ll find me sipping a cup of chai latte while sitting in my favorite rocking chair, hunched over my laptop writing or spending entirely too much time on Twitter.

My debut YA novel, Book 1 of the Captive Art series, will be out soon from Red Adept Publishing.

(Photograph by Ashley Smigelski)