About

Hi. I’m S.E. Sinkhorn. You can call me Steph.

This would normally be the place where I’d launch into a spiel about how I LOVE BOOKS and I LOVE WRITING and I LOVE THE EMOTIONAL ROLLERCOASTER OF THE TEENAGE EXPERIENCE and I’ve DECIDED TO COMBINE ALL THREE PASSIONS, but you’re a bright audience. I’m sure you’ve figured that out already :]

I’m a 20-something geek who lives in Northern California wine country with my geeky fiancé and our two geeky cats. Could I write a more clichéd bio opening? Yes, I’m sure I could. We spend our time enjoying the variety of experiences and places the North Bay has to offer, eating fancy or not-so-fancy finger foods, playing video games, watching *insert nerdy show here*, and debating *~very important topics~* with one another. I also write and do online marketing. He programs medical lab software.

My poison includes YA speculative and contemporary. Sometimes I dream in verse. My favorite color is turquoise. I like to watch the fog crawl across the valley. I’m on the short side. Zinfandel is my drink of choice. My literary idols include Madeline L’Engle, J.K. Rowling, Markus Zusak, Neil Gaiman, and many more. Et cetera.

If you’d like to read some of my writing samples, you can find them here on the blog under the “writing samples” label or under my Figment profile. My short story, “Chasing Shadows,” was selected by Holly Black as the YA runner-up for the 2010 Katherine Paterson Prize for YA & Children’s Writing. You can read it here. I still have my “congratulations” letter taped to the wall by my desk, and it still makes me smile.

I am represented by Michelle Andelman of Regal Literary.