Born in Kansas, USA,  I grew up riding my horse to landmarks recognised by Custer and Bill Cody. After my journalism degree  I worked for Japan's version of the BBC in Tokyo. I've  been a voice actor, an ad writer, a photographer, an antiques picker, a reading teacher, a house flipper and stager. Now living in a Co. Wexford house with a haunted library inhabited by gaslighting fairies, I preserve rare mustangs with my Swiss husband. Our colleagues are swordfighting actors, stuntriders, lunch-stealing lurchers and  befuddled cats. Imagine if we tried as hard to communicate with other earth creatures as we do aliens. I do,  in my SF novel, Equivox.