Chaired WC 04 and WC 06, now gratefully handing over the reins to new chairpersons and hoping to see you all at WC 09!

Once upon a time there was a girl who loved horror, science fiction, and fantasy. She loved to read, and wrote reams of stories about the shows she saw on television. Her classmates made sure to remind her daily that she was the only freak like that. Then she grew up and discovered that there were lots of 'freaks', and we weren't that freaky, after all. So she rejected the reality of her upbringing and substituted her own.

Every time we convene a Writercon, that little girl still hiding in my heart leaps for joy - look how many of us there are, and we're all beautiful, talented, and smart.

Full time physician, overtime mother of two, semi-successful gardener, always a fanfic writer, I didn't discover fandom until I was nearly thirty when I was bored, on call and surfing the net. Who knew others were writing fanfiction...and were posting it on the net? (What can I say? I apparently did grow up in a box.) Started writing OT Star Wars fanfic when I was eleven when I thought fandom was just a yellow legal pad and a pencil.

I have been on the Writercon board since its inception. If memory serves me well, it started as a pipe dream sitting around a table at Shoreleave 2002. I'm excited to be planning our next gathering, and promise my evil little monkey, I mean youngest daughter will NOT be in tow this time.

I've been fannish all my life, but joined online fandom in 2001 when I fell in love with Buffy the Vampire Slayer. For several years, I ran the fanfiction archive All About Spike. I've been attending conventions since Shore Leave 2002, and haven't missed a DragonCon since 2003, but Writercon is closest to my heart. I loved Writercon 2004 so much that I joined the concom for 2006, for which I created the website and helped out with planning the con. I've also volunteered at several Vulkons, sat on panels at Writercon '06, and once squeed about Spander with Jane Espenson on a fanfiction panel in London in 2004. I'm looking forward to helping make sure that Writercon 2009 will be better than ever.

I'm a thirty-something geek who hangs around on LJ. Somehow, I think you'll have a hard time picking me out of the crowd at WC09. ;) (Well, I was one of the programming coordinators for WC06, sat on the badfic panel, and helped DJ the dance... that might narrow it down.)