Charlotte Blackwood

I grew up in the Pacific Northwest. It's a very chill place, one of the few parts of the country where even though the landscape is diverse, colors don't matter. It's the Everyplace, to me, and so when I write I often eliminate the importance of WHERE. I like to think that my stories can happen anywhere, any small town or college town or mill town in the country. But I suppose, in doing that, everywhere becomes a bit more like my hometown.

I remember writing stories with my friends in elementary school. We had these fantastic stories where we were all traversing space and saving the universe. It's ironic that I really don't write sci-fi, since that was my first genre, but I guess when you're young you think you can do anything. Now I know I've got limits, and coming up with tech words that sound cool is definitely not one of them.

Seriously writing, though, probably happened when I was in high school. It started with poetry, songs, plays, and then my inspiration for those things ran dry and all of a sudden my prose just took off and it was all I wanted to do.