Monica has spent a good chunk of her life with more imaginary characters than friends of the flesh. These apparitions weren’t the cool kind who crept out of the shadows to play Barbies but the ones who lurked in the back of her head, staying well past their welcome. The telling of their dismal situations could fill the stages of Broadway for a full season.

In the meantime Monica was trying to live out her own story. After graduating from University of Wyoming with a degree in psychology she worked for a therapeutic wilderness program counseling teenage sexual perpetrators before she worked as an educational/career counselor. The highlight of that career came while working with injured American veterans in Europe. Although she like her job, the stories and words were swirling deep inside her, trying to spring the escape hatch.

Three year ago, after a hard push onto the path of consciousness, all sorts of nonsense began pooring out of her typing fingers. Before she could help herself she was writing for numerous magazines, websites and newspapers. By the time her life-long best friend, Melanie Bates, talked her into starting a literary site together she’d learned that when it comes to your passion, it’s best not to resist; Femme Tales-Truth with Humor, was born. Monica feels life is best when you hand your biggest dream over to the Universe, sit back, trust, then watch in utter fascination what it sends back..

She currently lives in the Bay Area where she's working on her novel, raising her kids, and taking in her share of hiking, biking, and meeting a few fascinating characters; in the flesh and otherwise.