Writing Since Before I Could Write
This is the first recorded story I ever composed, when I was five. Given that King Ferdinand II of Aragon died in 1516, I have no choice but to conclude that he was reincarnated as my dog and was deep in an existential crisis while trying to communicate his plight to a child. Even from a young age, I was drawn to speculative fiction.
After I submitted a five-page short story instead of the one-paragraph vocabulary exercise assigned, my tenth-grade English teacher asked if I had ever considered becoming a writer. I had, but not in any serious way. That night, at the age of fifteen, I went home and began writing the first lines of the first draft of what would become my first novel.
After I submitted a five-page short story instead of the one-paragraph vocabulary exercise assigned, my tenth-grade English teacher asked if I had ever considered becoming a writer. I had, but not in any serious way. That night, at the age of fifteen, I went home and began writing the first lines of the first draft of what would become my first novel.
New YorkBorn and raised in New York, while at university I had the opportunity to study abroad multiple times, visiting four different continents in four years. It is my personal goal to travel to all seven continents before I die, so if you have a ticket to Antarctica you're not using, please let me know.
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Peace CorpsAfter earning my bachelor's degree in international politics, I volunteered for two years with the U.S. Peace Corps, serving as a teacher trainer in the Kingdom of Tonga.
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Beyond
I then moved to Scotland, where I completed my doctorate in creative writing at the University of Glasgow.