Heather K O’Malley really began writing when she fell on a foot and broke the floor of her right optic. This required surgery to fix and as she was recovering, she began to write and has never really stopped. First it was short stories but then she started trying to write novels, which did not go very far. This led to poetry and plays. Her writing skill has grown since then, at one point writing 4 million words in a 10 year period.

 

She served in the US Army as a Voice Intercept Operator and Arabic Linguist with the 101st. She spent five years in the Army before being medically discharged. After she left the military, she started school at Austin Peay State University in Tennessee. Her focus in school was in creative writing and earned a Masters Degree with Honors, producing a poetry thesis the same semester as having her tonsils taken out and having gotten married. It was a busy time.

 

Once out of school, she wrote a lot online, writing both fanfiction and original works, many set in a shared superhuman universe known as Whatley Academy. While she was working on these other works, she started writing Transitioning Home in 2006. Once she completed the manuscript, she began trying to sell it but had little success until a publisher named Bold Strokes Books took a chance with it. She is also written several young adult books, a few fantasy novels, and some other contemporary fiction works.

 

Heather spends her time with her wife and their two cats. When she is not writing or editing, she enjoys watching movies, playing video games, reading, hiking, and swimming. Her favorite authors include J.R.R. Tolkien, Mercedes Lackey, Steve Perry, Jorge Luis Borges, Spider Robinson, and Robert Heinlein. She also likes studying Faerie Lore, medieval and ancient history, the life of Leonardo da Vinci, philosophy, and world religions. Her preferred poets are Li Bai, Walt Whitman, WB Yeats, Pablo Neruda, Mary Oliver, and Gary Snyder.

 

Heather is very excited to share her stories and other works with readers. She hopes you enjoy what you read. She also reminds people to use the local library system as it is a great way to expose yourself to the amazing stories that so many storytellers put out into the world.