When I was three years old, I fired my parents from telling me bedtime stories. I was tired of stories about princesses and ships. So, I decided to start telling myself my own stories. This began a habit of daydreaming about a whole host of favorite characters I created over the years. This continued into high school, where I was in boarding school in the early nineties. I shared a dorm with one television, two phones and sixty girls, which left my imagination as my principal form of entertainment. I became an obsessive self-storyteller then, sometimes spending hours staring at the ceiling in my room absorbed in my own imagination.

It was then when I first created Edie Hardy, the main character of my book, The Mooncake Messenger. Each year of high school I told myself stories about a generation of women in her family, but Edie was my favorite. She grew up an expat in Hong Kong and through the course of her life manages to adventurously entangle herself in events of the Cold War. I never wrote any of these stories down—but I remembered them.

Over the years I continued creating stories. When I considered writing a book, I found the amount of research required to write Edie’s story with any degree of self-respecting accuracy daunting, so I tried developing other more modern day characters instead. But none of my characters were as compelling as Edie. Finally, almost twenty years after I first created her—and despite having a full time director-level corporate career and other commitments—I told Edie I would finally do it and with as accurate a historical depiction as possible. And I did. The Mooncake Messenger is my first complete novel and the beginning of her tale.

I have a degree in Political Science, with a focus on International Affairs, from Barnard College, Columbia University. Similar to the Hardys, three generations of my family have lived overseas as American expats, myself having lived in São Paulo, Paris, Dakar, Stockholm, and Heidelberg. I have spent the past ten years of my life with the multinational software company, SAP, where my last position was as a Director of Global Customer Experience. I currently live in San Francisco.

I am looking for an agent to represent my book.

To contact me, please send an email to [email protected]. You can also learn more about me on LinkedIn.