Outside of my career as an author, I am a professional technical and creative writer, spider wrangler, animal lover, and devoted cat mom. Writing fantasy and science fiction stories has been a lifelong passion for me. I love to include in my work the diversity I see around me and draw upon my myriad life experiences doing everything from wild cave exploration and competitive horseback endurance riding to practicing iaido and archery.Grand Prize Winner of 2015 Dante Rossetti Award for Young Adult Fiction for The Girl and the Clockwork CatFinalist in the 2018 Next Generation Indie Book Awards for The KeeperFinalist in the 2016 Cygnus Award for Science Fiction and Speculative Fiction for DissidentMy short story, In Silence Waiting was a Writer's of the Future finalist.Visit my website at elysiumpalace . com to learn more about my writing and read the first chapter of any of my books.NOTE: No generative artificial intelligence (A.I.) or predictive language software has been or will be used in any part of the creation of my books.Read more about this authorRead less about this author