I started writing stories in the first grade. My attraction to stories made me an avid reader and inspired a love for the dramatic. After college, I found a home in museums, researching, preserving, and presenting stories of the past. But the muse of writing my own stories took hold, and now I write feverishly to release the myriad of stories that live inside my head. When the muse releases me, my heart is with my three little ones, and we live and play out new stories to pass down the family line. Motivated by the many lessons, perspectives, and amazing stories of struggle and triumph in my people's past, I write tales of characters who overcome extreme obstacles to reach the mark of excellence in front of them. I hope my characters are inspirational and stir the fires of progress and human empathy in us all.