Kathleen Ann Goonan

"My father, a fire protection engineer, began working for the government in 1960, when we moved to Hawaii. After about two years there, we moved to the Washington, D.C. area, where my parents still live.

"As is true, I suppose, of most writers, I had a book in my hand from the time I learned to read. I have a degree in literature, and A.M.I Montessori certification, which I got so that I could earn a living while writing during the summers. However, I began a year-round school in Knoxville, Tennessee, which was very successful; we soon had a hundred students, many employees, and two locations. So things didn't calm down enough for me to really concentrate on writing until I was 33.

"First I wrote an unpublished novel and then many short stories. My husband had a job offer in Hawaii, and he encouraged me to try writing full time, after having put it off for so long. We moved to Hawaii, and there I began writing full time, although during that year I sold only a travel article and a children's story. I have missed teaching tremendously, but writing is a new challenge, and it is the career I planned to have, although I thought I would get around to it sooner than I did. Without my husband's encouragement, I might be teaching still." --Kathleen Ann Goonan (extract from an interview with Jonas Ahlberg, 1996).

"Kathleen Ann Goonan lives in Lakeland, Florida [US]." [in The Bones of Time , US hbk, 5 February 1996]