 Rebecca
Coleman,
a New Yorker by birth, has lived much of her life in the
suburbs of Washington, D.C. She spent most of her childhood
reading obsessively. While attending one of the premier
public high schools in the region, she wrote off all forms
of bad behavior with the excuse that she had to experience
life in order to become a writer. She entered college
as a journalism major, then married and had her first
child at age twenty-one. After having three more children,
she eventually managed to graduate with honors from the
University of Maryland at College Park with a degree in
English.
She has written
for newspapers and trade publications for writers, receiving
her first fan letter for a humorous article
about a family vacation to the wild North Woods of New Hampshire,
a place where locals visit water parks in seventy-degree weather
and cell phone reception is more rare than a moose sighting.
Having lived for many years in the thirties-era "cooperative
community" of Greenbelt, Maryland, and ready to see a
return on her investment in adolescent hijinks, she was inspired
to write Desperado City--a story that captures the pain and
euphoria of impending adulthood, set against the backdrop
of a quirky and insular small town.
Rebecca does not
have spare time, because she has four children and a constantly
bubbling fountain of inspiration to write
fiction. If she did, however, she would spend it exploring
her fascinations with European prehistory, Japanese culture,
and her husband, Mike. She lives and writes in Bowie, Maryland.
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