I was born in Chicago and lived in California for 30 years before moving to Lawrence, Kansas. I have practiced Homeopathy for 20 years and wrote Magic Medicine: Homeopathy as Shamanism out of my deep understanding of how homeopathy works. My love of literature and writing was encouraged by teachers in my high school and college years, and I will be forever grateful for this. Why do I write? Because I don't want to die with my music in me. I have completed my first novel, Now and at the Hour.