Where did you grow up, and how did this influence your writing?
I was primarily raised in Philadelphia but spent many summers on my grandparents farm in Kentucky. I tend to write darker fiction, of monsters both literal and those that take human form. I had a very tough childhood and was badly abused. This has no doubt influenced much of this darker writing.
When did you first start writing?
I wrote stories as soon as I learned how to read and form a sentence. I would write stories with crayons and tie the pages together with bits of red yarn.
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