Long story short:  I’m a writer, a marketing consultant, and a native Californian turned happy Boulder, Colorado transplant.  My debut book, The Heroine’s Bookshelf, is due out from HarperCollins this October.

Insistent on some type of biography?  Well.  I grew up in the suburbs of San Diego.  After completing coursework at Smith College, I completed my B.A. in history at UCLA.  In 1996, I was awarded the Congress-Bundestag Scholarship and spent a year as an exchange student in Fulda, Germany (yes, I am still [somehow] fluent).  Now I live in Boulder, where I co-own VOCO Creative, a social media, marketing, and brand strategy firm.

My many interests include American studies, language, history, pop culture, music, and politics.  I am saved from complete nerddom by my checkered past as a roller derby queen (I retired from the Denver Roller Dolls in 2006 after a knee injury), singer in an indie rock band, and free speech and media activist.  My guilty pleasures include celebrity gossip, disco, and Sweet Valley High.

Over the years I’ve come to see myself as a study in contrasts:  An entrepreneur who likes to lay around and be lazy, an extrovert who is secretly scared of people, and a writer who would sometimes rather do the dishes, run ten miles, or walk into traffic than write.  For now, that’s all okay by me.