loretta sylvestre
author

Loretta Sylvestre grew up barefoot and city-wild in Los Angeles County California, and now makes her home on the rainy side of Washington State, where stories push up from the leaf mold at night like mushrooms. She graduated from The Evergreen State College, with major emphasis on music, mental health, and cultural studies. She lives with a cat, Boudreau, and earns the money for his food and his hobbies (such as collecting ponytail holders) by working as a civil servant.

She writes a lot – because she loves it and because she can't seem to stop. Her stories have appeared in SN Review, Foliate Oak, The Battered Suitcase, The Linnet's Wings, and now – huzzah – Tales from the Moonlit Path. She has completed one novel, a YA fantasy entitled Beyond the Wizard's Threshold, and it will be published (date unknown) by Lilley Press (www.lilleypress.com).

She loves to read, too, and leaves books in her path like a trail of crumbs. Cherryh, Butcher, Huff, Perry, Francis, Erdrich, Tolkien, L'Engle, Funke, Gaiman, Lovecraft, Brooks, Goethe, Collins, Bradbury, and Hobb, just to name a few authors. New favorites: Jason Rolfe – find his work in The Harrow and in The Willows; Tom Beck – find his work in Liquid Imagination.

Her blog is called Worlds Well Written (http://www.worldswellwritten.com).
The subtitle of the site is, A Writers and Readers Conversation, and all are invited to participate.

Her Live Journal page (http://worldsbyloretta.livejournal.com) has a few public posts and more for friends, and there aren't many things she likes better than a new friend.