Lacey L Schmidt

Lacey Schmidt is an Industrial-Organizational Psychologist with over twenty years of experience selecting and training teams to work in extreme environments like Antarctica, Emergency Medicine, and Outer Space. Along the way, she has met a plethora of interesting people and collected many tall (but true) tales that inspire her novels. You can email Lacey feedback, encouragement, or random tales of your own at LaceyLSchmidt@gmail.com

Her prior professional publications include technical articles such as, "Team climate at Antarctic research stations 1996–2000: leadership matters," and "A Model of Psychosocial Factors for Long-Duration

Spaceflight Exploration Missions," as well as practical professional development and leadership advice excerpts in Minerva Work Solutions' book called"50 Ways to Work Wiser."

Lacey's literary publications include a poetry book called "The Nightshade Lexicon," a creative non-fiction article in Bottom Dog Press' "Unbroken Circle: Stories of Cultural Diversity in the South", several short stories (in collections such as It's in Her Kiss and The Texas Collection), and the lesbian romance novels "A Walk Away", "Catch to Release", and "Playing With Matches" published by Affinity Rainbow Publications.