Peri Dwyer Worrell was raised on a predominantly Puerto Rican street in New York City. From this, she gained a keen appreciation of the value of diversity, tolerance, and taking no crap from anyone. She worked freelance in copy editing in her teens and early twenties, but her math and science abilities led her to earn a biology degree. Later, her love of making people feel better led her into the practice of chiropractic, which she did for thirty years in north Florida.When inflammatory arthritis disintegrated her wrists, rendering her unable to practice, she took that as a sign that she should return to her first love: the written word. Her first publication was a mystery story, "No Cook," published in Mystery Weekly in 2015. She then switched genres with the publication of the Eupocalypse trilogy of apocalyptic science-fiction thrillers.When a psychic sort of inflammation afflicted the country of her birth, she moved overseas, living in Ecuador for a year and Mexico for three. The birth of her first grandchild, however, lured her back to the country of her birth. She now lives in the Tampa Bay region of Florida.Publications include: “No Cook,” short story, Mystery Weekly“Verge,” poem, Westerly“Taming What Infests Us,” poem, Crack the Spine Literary Journal"Safe in the Sunshine," poem, The Five Two “Itch,” short story, HOZ Journal of Speculative Literature “Tongue,” short story, Aggregate (anthology)“Plexus,” poem, Tiny Seed Literary Journal "We Both Know That Ain't True," The Dime Show Review “On Good Authority,” short story, After-Dinner Conversation magazine“Chiapas,” poem, Rabbit“The Butcher’s Dog,” short story, Hiraeth/Cover of Daylight “Things You Learn,” poem, ProspectusSelf-published science-fiction novel trilogy: Machine Sickness, Watch It Burn, and Catallaxis She also blogs about politics, ethics, and philosophy (https://consistentprinciples.wordpress.com), and about her travels (https://peripateticperi.wordpress.com and https://goodbyeusahelloecuador.wordpress.com), copy edits science articles for indexed medical journals freelance, and gets sand between her toes on a regular basis.Read more about this authorRead less about this author