I spend way too much time reading, social dancing, and cooking while I should be working on my graduate degree or planning lessons for my gig as a science fellow in a Portland elementary school.

Favorite authors of the moment: Connie Willis, Italo Calvino, Neil Gaiman, Diana Wynne Jones, Billy Collins, Lawrence Block, Nancy Pickard, Mary Willis Walker, Beth Hensperger

Favorite trippy cross-genre book you've never heard of: The Gumshoe, the Witch, and the Virtual Corpse, by Keith Hartman

Guilty junk-food-book secret: My boyfriend taunts me because of my weakness for cozy mysteries. But who doesn't occasionally want to visit a world where caterers, bookstore owners, or cats can solve murders?

Other stuff: If anyone is looking for places to dance ballroom, west coast swing, or Latin in the Corvallis area, drop me a line...