Age: 27

Gender: Cis female, femme-identified

Sexual & romantic orientation: Finromantic (into women and femmefolk; "fin" is an acronym for "feminine in nature") asexual

Writing: Obviously, I am a writer. I write novels, songs, and fanfic. In my soul of souls, I am a sci-fi novelist, but most of my writing is unedited, dashed-off fanfiction because novel work requires bigger chunks of time than I usually have. The first novel I will attempt to get published will (probably) be a YA sci-fi action/adventure story that can pretty accurately be described as "Star Trek meets Dungeons and Dragons" and is tentatively called Forces Beyond Comprehension. I'm also working on an urban fantasy superhero novel called Pseyechia. I also finished NaNoWriMo 2013 with about 2/3 (what can I say, I'm verbose) of a heavily ancient Egyptian-inspired mythology urban fantasy about an aro ace character. It's called Going Spark.

Future Plans: I recently left laboratory bench work to pursue scientific writing. I'm still hoping to get original fic published at some point.

Favorite Books: Uprooted by Naomi Novik, The Fifth Season and The Obelisk Gate by N.K. Jemisin, Fledgling and The Parable of the Talents by Octavia Butler, American Gods and Coraline by Neil Gaiman, Mindscape by Andrea Hairston, Mogworld by Yahtzee Croshaw, Anathem and The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson, Sunshine by Robin McKinley, Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer, A Dictionary of Made-Up Languages, The Bell Jar and Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams by Sylvia Plath, the Newsflesh trilogy by Mira Grant, pretty much anything Roald Dahl touches, various Discworld books by Terry Pratchett, everything by Seanan McGuire that I've read, and Orson Scott Card's sci-fi and urban fantasy books that don't insult my humanity

Favorite Movies: Serenity, Pacific Rim, Sweeney Todd, Repo! The Genetic Opera, Corpse Bride, Battlestar Galactica: Razor, Megamind, How to Train Your Dragon, Wreck-It Ralph, Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, Keeping Mum, Inception, Slumdog Millionaire, Fight Club, Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland, Kill Bill, Coraline, Sleepy Hollow, Edward Scissorhands, Little Miss Sunshine, Pan's Labyrinth, Thank You for Smoking, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, V for Vendetta, Pulp Fiction, The Gamers: Dorkness Rising, Dead Poets Society, Up, Inside Out, The Nightmare Before Christmas, anything by Hayao Miyazaki, The Incredibles, Ratatouille, the first three Pirates of the Caribbean movies

Favorite TV Shows: Firefly, Battlestar Galactica, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: DS9, Star Trek: Voyager, Avatar: The Last Airbender, Avatar: The Legend of Korra, Law and Order: SVU, Law and Order: CI, Steven Universe, The Boondocks, Bob's Burgers, and Metalocalypse.

Current favorite quote: "What I fear most, I think, is the death of imagination...If I sit still and don't do anything, the world goes on beating like a slack drum, without meaning. We must be moving, working, making dreams to run toward; the poverty of life without dreams is too horrible to imagine." --Sylvia Plath