Sheila Hight was born in California, and raised in Augusta, Georgia. Her career has been wildly variant, and she has worked as a soda jerk (look it up), a motel maid, a reserve sheriff’s deputy, a nurse, lived on a medical ship, worked as an HR consultant, and as a psychotherapist. She resides in New Zealand with her husband and a small menagerie of animals. She likes people, books, coffee, and chocolate. She loves travel, a good laugh, soft blankets, and expensive perfume. She deplores eating fish, and if you ask her to go camping, she’ll give you a look that will wither your soul.