Becky Breidenbach is a data analyst and evaluator for a large bureaucracy by day and a writer by night. As a child, she showed incredible potential as a budding author, winning the elementary school-wide contest in kindergarten for a story about her cat, Cloudy, and going on to publish one of the only non-depressing poems she wrote in seventh grade in a national magazine, Merlyn’s Pen. However, aside from an errant creative writing class during undergrad at the University of Michigan, other more economically rewarding pursuits and a variety of time-wasting distractions kept her from her passion for writing for much too long.
She is now enthusiastically pursuing her childhood dream job again. In addition to shirking her household responsibilities to spend most of her free time writing her first book, she’s a frequent Slug Tribe attendee, a bimonthly writing critique group in Austin for science fiction and fantasy writers. She has participated in the ArmadilloCon writer’s workshop for a number of years. She is a member of the Writer’s League of Texas and attended the 2017 Agents and Editors Conference.
Becky has a master’s degree in a totally unrelated field (Public Affairs from the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas). She is from the strip-malled suburbs of Detroit, Michigan but now lives in Austin, Texas with her spouse, a very large bed-hog dog, and three mischievous cats.