About Me

A much younger and much cuter me!

 I grew up on a farm in the little town of St. Anthony, Idaho. Growing up I spent cold Idaho mornings milking cows in the dark. It's one of the things I like to mention to my kids to when I want to point out how much harder my life was than theirs. I attended Teton Elementary then South Fremont Jr. High and South Fremont high school.  Every October we got out of school for two weeks for potato harvest and Hunter's Education was part of our sixth grade curriculum. 

I've always wanted to be a writer. I wrote my first book for my little brother, sewed the pages together and had one of my friends illustrate it. Once in sixth grade I started an underground newspaper. I think it lasted like two issues. In high school I was part of an all-girls yearbook staff. Because I had three brothers in sports, I was nominated to write all of the sports copy. I wrote about everything from football to wrestling to rodeo.

I spent summers bridge jumping and dragging main (also known as cruising main, or driving up and down main street, wasting gas and chasing guys from neighboring towns). I drove a sweet, red, 1971 Chevelle Malibu, that looked great but sometimes showed it's age. For example, the heater was stuck on full blast for an entire summer. Then it died completely in time for Winter.  Later, a short in the horn made it honk every time I stepped on the brake.

What Bridge-Jumping should look like  (above) and what I looked like doing it.(right) I have the whole panicked arm-flapping thing down.

The founding DJs and staff at KWBH

I survived high school and went on to Ricks College (now BYU-Idaho) where I majored in Broadcast Communications. I was one of the founding deejays for a small campus radio station, KWBH. I met the love of my life at Ricks when he dropped me on my head during a volleyball game with my roommates. I didn't even know his name. It was love at first brain-jarring drop. We were married a year later and together we moved onto Brigham Young University, Provo. After two years of hanging out at at KBYU, the campus television station, and working on a film minor at a small motion picture studio, I left BYU with a degree in Broadcast Communications and a son.

Four kids and a few moves later, I currently live in beautiful forests of Lacey, Washington. By day I work in a high school library where my favorite thing is to find that one book to make a reluctant reader love reading.  Afternoons and evenings are spent writing, reading, chasing kids, cleaning up after kids, and sleeping. I'm  proudly represented by the lovely Sara Megibow  from KT Literary.