I was born in Fort Collins, Colorado, and raised just about everywhere else. As the product of an Air Force family, I traveled to a new home and location every few years. Some of our stations included Tainan, Taiwan and Grant Heights, a military housing area in Tokyo (now a bedroom community called Hikarigaoka).

I graduated with a BA in Fine Art from the University of South Florida in Tampa, after spending four years drawing nude pictures of a large, elderly black lady with a Caesarean scar. After I escaped from college, a friend and I flew to Tokyo to find work as English instructors. What started out as a two-year lark became a long-term stay. I later became a copywriter for a Japanese ad agency, then found a job with Sega Enterprises as a manual writer for home video games. I also did part time proofreading work and cartoons for the old Tokyo Journal. I lived in Kamakura City (a great place to visit), a ten minute walk from this enormous statue of Kannon, the Goddess of Mercy.

After eight and a half years in Japan, I returned to the United States in 1996, seeking a whole new adventure. In 1997 I moved to San Jose, California, got a job with Adobe Systems and learned to fly small airplanes. In 2003 returned to Tampa, Florida.

You can email me at wendy@chronicsite.com