Dee Hogan

Dee Hogan was born and raised in a Suburban Kansas Town where she spent her days doing Suburban Kansas Things, such as going to school, playing basketball, and wondering what hills look like. She graduated from the University of Kansas with degrees in English and East Asian Studies, both subjects branding her as the sort of nerd that other nerds shove into lockers. She now lives in Bucktown, Chicago, where she has fabulous misadventures with her roommate and their exceptionally fat cat.

Since Dee has genre ADD, she likes to fiddle with fiction styles, bouncing between prose pieces, screenplays, graphic novel scripts, and the occasional stage play. Basically, she wants to be Neil Gaiman when she grows up. Other modern writers she enjoys include Tamora Pierce, China Mieville, Haruki Murakami, and Mark Danielewski. Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy has been her favorite series since she was thirteen, though she is unashamed to admit that it is closely followed by the Redwall books.

Between class and work, Dee collects hobbies, such as drawing Noses Off! comics, translating Japanese songs and stories, and scouring the streets of Chicago for cheap places to eat, drink, and watch KU basketball games. She intends to launch a blog just as soon as she has the time to write in it.