I was born in Ottawa, Ontario. Since then I’ve lived in Montreal, northeastern France, southwestern Japan, Texas, North Carolina, and Brooklyn, New York, where I’m living right now and intend to stay for a while.

As a geeky person with a lot of momentary obsessions and strange hobbies, I could become a librarian or a writer, and since I’m terminally indecisive, I’m both. I also bake, play Rock Band, mess around with Linux, listen to Japanese pop music and Canadian folk music, knit, learn languages, and argue about politics.

I love musicals and bicycles and Japanese movies. It was only logical that I should end up writing a book like A Love Story Starring My Dead Best Friend, which has musicals and bicycles and ninjas.

My favorite Japanese movie is Afterlife, which has no ninjas in it, but is an achingly tender meditation on death, memory, and one’s responsibility towards the past.

My favorite musical is Hedwig and the Angry Inch. I once had the privilege of seeing a very low-budget production starring the brother of one of my high school crushes. It was swoon-worthy.

My favorite bicycle is Sweetness, an orange Fuji touring bicycle.

Once my roommate and I were watching some anime on TV and talking about its weird depiction of chivalry and gender roles.
“You do realize,” I said, “That as we’re talking about this, I’m knitting, and you’re baking?”

I think there’s some kind of a lesson here.