Kendra

I’ve been making up stories for as long as I can remember, but I started my first novel when I was fourteen because I had an old computer in my room and characters in my head.

When I was twenty-one I had a scoliosis surgery and a poorly placed epidural left me with an incomplete spinal cord injury. While I was in the hospital learning how to walk again, I realized that all the heroic characters I read about could run and jump and swing a sword. I never saw any that looked and walked like me.

So, I started writing familiar stories from unfamiliar points of view, highlighting heroes with disabilities. My own experience with partial paraplegia has shown me that you don’t have to be able to swing a sword to save the day.

Awards

By Wingéd Chair: first place in the the Pikes Peak Writers’ Zebulon contest

A Matter of Blood: first place in the YA category of the CAL Awards

The Pain Bearer: first place in the fantasy category of the CAL Awards

The King in the Tower: first place in the novella category of the CAL Awards

Magic and Misrule: finalist in the Colorado Book Awards