Min comes by storytelling honestly.  She's a storyteller from a long line of them, and listened to her grandfather, mother, and aunts tell stories from the time she was old enough to sit still.  These stories ranged from tales about Coyote and where our people came from, to a famous cycle her mother invented about the family cat:  "How Nubbin ate all the Hamburgers" and "How Nubbin tore down the Christmas Tree on Christmas Eve" were among Min's early favorites.  Her (Danish) father read her Greek myths from Childcraft.  Her (Illiniwek) mother told her stories.  Not all the stories that Indians tell are about Coyote or Raven.  Most are just stories about life and dogs and frybread, and the occasional obnoxious siamese cat.  It's how our children learn what's important in life.

In native tradition, telling stories is sacred business:  holy.  Sure, storytellers tell stories to entertain, but Min likes to tell stories that might actually "mean something," too (and how's that for arrogant?).  What she's doing writing fanfiction . . . well, even she hasn't figured that out yet.  It sure don't pay the rent, ain't it?  Being serially monogamous in fandoms, she wrote in X-men for 6 years but has since migrated to Harry Potter.  Besides writing, she also moderates the Insane Journal HP group "Not_a_Spare" and the X-Men e-list "X-Men Movie Fanfic" (xmmff).

She's done hospice work and bereavement counseling, mediation, and now sometimes doubles as a college history professor.  She lives with her son, her books, two blue-point siamese cats, a black cat, two guinea pigs (dubbed Anakin and Luke by her son -- guess his fandom), and a black squirrel she has to chase out of her garden periodically.  When she's not writing (or answering email), she's probably outside digging in the dirt, keeping an eye on her grade schooler, reading, or making frybread and Indian chili. If asked what mutant power she'd most like to have, her unequivocal answer would be "telekinesis" so she could get dishes off her top shelves without climbing on the kitchen counters.  She's still in the market for a real-life Cedric Diggory or Scott Summers.

The Quidditch Pitch Interview
Given in March 2008, when Nature adn Destiny was chosen for Editor's Choice story of the month.

Min's Live Journal
Writing updates, meta on writing and fandom, occasional humor, and assorted other topics

Awards
The honoring that readers and colleagues have graciously given; 24 awards total