power of perception writers with .J.D. Lakey

.J.D. Lakey is at heart a sci-fi geek, comic book fan, and occasional mystic. For most of her life she was a short story writer, but recently became a novelist intent on writing (righting?) the wrongs done to women in literature starting with Ophelia and moving on to Kilgore Trout. Once a wife, now just a mother and a grandmother, she was born and raised in Montana, and if you know anything about Montana women, that should speak volumes. She attended the University of Montana where she studied Forestry. Gigs include being a restaurant cook, a land surveyor, a civil engineering tech, a witch, a printer, and a forest fire fighter. Of all of them, the tech job paid the best.

Her love of science fiction stemmed from growing up on a cattle ranch and farm under the endless star-filled Montana skies as far from civilization as anyone in the twentieth century could get. There she explored the finer nuances of silence and the endless possibilities of the imagination. The stories were always there. The shifting of fortunes finally granted her the time to gather all the stories and give them flesh. She currently lives in San Diego, California where she divides her time between her writing, commuting on the I-5 to get to one of her gigs, and spending time with her delightful grandchildren.