In another lifetime (a.k.a. 2002), August was a punk kid running a writing-themed e-zine and participating in online survivor writing contests in Brian Jacques's Redwall fandom; these days, she’s a punk pseudo-adult with an office job and a studio of her own. Her husband, friends, and job keep her tied to the misty Pacific Northwest of the U.S., and her insatiable love of stringing words together keeps her writing a little bit of everything, every day. She loves to cook, make music, and collaborate creatively with others in her spare time.