Madeleine Lycka was born and raised in mid-Michigan. She has lived in and around San Francisco since the big quake of ’89. She graduated with honors from San Francisco State University. "Night Weaver", a lesbian vampire novel set in San Francisco, is her first novel. Her second novel, "Colossus of Arms", a sci-fi novel of exploration, lost love, and the true meaning of art, set on an exotic planet called Earth, will be available in the spring of 2015.