About Me

I live in NYC with the love of my life, Mr. Dingo. We’re only a few blocks from the school where I teach horror fiction and also work in one of the administrative offices. While being so close to where I seem to spend ninety-percent of my life may seem like a gift, I have yet to figure out how to get to work on time. Mr. Dingo and I have a dog, Dingo Girl, and a cat, Not a Dingo. You will hear an inordinate amount about both of them.

In addition to working on a Master’s Degree and teaching, I am obsessed with several things. In no particular order:

• Zombies, how to escape from zombies and how to tell a zombie from actual living beings. Clearly, this obsession with the undead was a natural inroad to my interest Gothic Literature.


• How to lose weight without even trying. I haven’t found the answer yet, but when I do, you’ll be the first to know.
• Grey’s Anatomy. Does this really need an explanation?
• The Discovery Channel: Animal Planet. What’s not to love? Well, besides the jackals culling the cuddly wuddly little gazelle from the herd and rendering it to bloody pieces. Oh, and the crocodiles. Those sneaky reptiles with their used-car salesmen smiles lounge beneath the surface of the lake just waiting for cuddly wuddly little chimps to come down for their bath before story time and bed…damn crocs.
• Eddie Izzard. If you don’t know who this is, run, run, run to Wikipedia. Or eddieizzard.com Be prepared to laugh. A lot.
• Reading, writing, writing about what I read, reading about what to read next and so on. Unfortunately, I can’t get my reading and writing to be (hold on for the bad pun) on the same page. I’m either reading when I should be writing, writing when I should be reading, or taking a nap.

I am also an expert at multitasking. For instance, while typing this About Me blurb, I hoovered an entire pack of Twizzlers.