Publisher, editor, and writer (Oxford University Press, Harvard Business Review, DC Comics). Founded Red Room, an online community and social media platform for authors, which was acquired in 2014 by Wattpad. Former management and communications consultant to startups (Serena and Lily) and Fortune 500 companies (Gap, Inc.). Juris Doctorate (Editor in Chief of the law review, interned at California Supreme Court). Named “Best Writing Coach” by San Francisco Magazine. Keynote speaker on writing (Independent Book Publishers Association, Stanford Writers Conference, USC Writers Conference) and featured expert on writing and the future of publishing (Digital Publishing Innovation Summit, Writers Digest West) and entrepreneurship (Lean Startup Conference, Exceptional Women in Publishing). Guest-lecturer at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business and the San Francisco Zen Center. On the leadership team of the Bay Area Book Festival and a former Litquake Committee member. Literary influences include Umberto Eco, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and Kurt Vonnegut. Her feminist-superhero-mafia-noir graphic novel, Huntress: Year One, was named “Best Graphic Novel of the Decade” by one random person on Twitter.