Kristen J. Schmidt has been telling tales since before she could write. In fact, her first detention was for writing too long of a short story. She has a BA in Creative Writing with an emphasis in fiction and secondary emphasis in playwrighting and screenwriting. Though she lives in California, her heart has always been in places like Montana and Wyoming. When not writing, she likes to camp with her family and German Shepherds, travel to archaeological digs or mission trips to Mazatlan Mexico, or go places with her closest friends who are also in her acting troupe. While staying healthy, she has learned to love martial arts and has found that this training doubles as research for her writing. Kristen has been writing, acting, and directing in theatre pieces at her church Flipside or her college since she was eighteen. She often says the times she feels most alive are when she’s writing or part of a theatre production; the times when the creative gives life to something new, exciting, and altogether real.