I’ve been told that visitors to my website are disappointed by the lack of a bio, so here it is, and even though I’m shy and don’t really like talking about myself, once I get started, it’s hard to stop…

I was born in Havana, Cuba, but moved to Miami when I was ten months old, and two years later, my family moved to northern Virginia when my dad began work with USAID. When I was 17, we returned to Miami, where I finished high school and attended Florida International University, majoring in History while doing a double minor in World Literature and Cultural Anthropology. Because I was raised in Virginia, I never had the full Cuban-American exile experience and because of that I think, and dream, and write in English. In search of excitement, happiness and my soul mate (not necessarily in that order) I’ve lived in Chicago, London, Boston, Atlanta, Maryland and Miami.

I’ve been writing since I was six-years-old, and my sister still complains about all the times I woke her up on weekend mornings banging novels out on my typewriter. My parents’ friends used to smile indulgently at me and ask me what I was going to write about when I grew up, and I invariably replied, “The metaphysics of sex” before I even knew what sex was! I loved Nancy Drew books when I was growing up and began devouring the classics, beginning with Tolstoy, when I was twelve-years-old. I’ve also been fascinated (to put it mildly) with the ancient Egyptian culture since I can remember. When I was twenty-one, I self-published a book of poems, Fragments For A Papyrus, and continued to write poetry and paint while I lived alone in Dorchester, Massachusetts for several years with a big black cat (E’Ahmose, “Born of the Moon”) in a haunted apartment, I kid you not. I went through my mid-life crisis in my twenties (What, I’m going to grow old and die? That sucks!) and being alone helped define my unique vision of life. Finally, after years of struggle, a handful of my short stories were published in magazines. The first of these were science fiction and fantasy stories, one of which won second place in the New England Association for Science Fiction Fantasy.

Most of my adult life I’ve worked part-time office jobs in order to have the time and energy to write, which is what I love to do and absolutely have to do to be truly happy. I never set out to be a writer of erotica, being a huge fan of mystery and romantic suspense novels, yet I couldn’t help it; there was always more sex in my books than I intended, and when I came across “The Story of O” it was a revelation, to say the least. Six years ago I became an editor for my first U.K. publisher, and at his suggestion to “stop holding yourself back and write what you really feel and want to write,” I began writing erotica.

At this wonderful moment in time, I live with my beloved Master, Stinger, and our precious Merlin, not to mention with all sorts of other creatures on our five wooded acres. I love to eat and cook gourmet food, in that order, and I think we have as many wine bottles as books! The best moments in life are sipping chardonnay out on the porch on summer nights, or sitting in front of the fire in the winter, talking to the man I searched half my life for before we finally met. Every moment we spend together is a blessing and a joy that reveals more and more of life’s mysterious and profoundly challenging beauty; it’s all the thoughts and feelings our love inspires that I strive to express through my writing.