{"id":2,"date":"2008-09-29T16:29:22","date_gmt":"2008-09-29T21:29:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stefoff.com\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2025-01-28T11:48:45","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T19:48:45","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/stefoff.com\/?page_id=2","title":{"rendered":"About me"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I’ve lived in three regions of the US and am happy that I ended up in my favorite.<\/p>\n\n\n

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My early life was spent in the Midwest. I grew up in Fort Wayne and earned a B.A. in English from Indiana University. I moved East to get my M.A. at the University of Pennsylvania, where I created and taught the first undergraduate classes in fantasy and science fiction. A couple of years later I became a freelance writer, and I’ve been a full-time freelancer ever since.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For years now I’ve been a happy resident of the Pacific Northwest. I live in Portland, Oregon, with bikes and kayaks in my garage, trees on every side of my house, and never enough free time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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One room in the house has indigo walls, a blue-and-white checked floor, an ancient oilcloth map of Tibet on one wall, and a view from the second floor into the branches of a monster cottonwood tree. That’s my office, where I spend a good part of every day. Often I am accompanied—or distracted—by the Speckled Menace, aka the Bengal cat Xanthe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As of 2025 I’ve published more than 200 nonfiction books for teens and young readers. Check out “Nonfiction for young readers” on this website for more information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the fiction front, I’ve published a few romance novels and, more recently, a couple of horror stories. Currently I’m writing YA and MG novels with fantasy, horror, or science-fictional vibes. The Fiction page on this website has details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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