When Kristi isn’t riding her Harley or working at the Arc of Lane County for her "day job," you can find her in front of her computer, hammering out exciting suspense stories for anyone willing to read them, or hanging around on social media. While she has worked on her writing craft for +30 years, like many authors, she had to work other jobs to make ends meet. She has a strange and varied work history, having held jobs in a hotel, a car wash, an insurance company, an electronics assembly line, an auto parts warehouse, a blueberry nursery, and as a truck driver and owner of her own trucking company. She even delivered nuts and bolts around town for a fastener store/warehouse for a while as she pursued her writing career in earnest. Now she is a billing specialist for an agency that advocates for people with physical and mental disabilities. She got married for the first time at 38, skipped being a mommy and went straight to Grandma. She says, "It worked out best for everyone that way." It is fully her intention to go to her grave having never changed a diaper.