Jade Sylvan was born in the Midwest and now lives in the North East, though she acknowledges there are many other worthwhile regions in America. She considers herself a writer with some propensity for singing on key and sketching humanoid fi gures that look like they could be from this planet or one akin to it in environmental makeup. She is a frequent traveller and occasional vegetarian. Among the skills she has picked up with bewildering ease and failed to do anything remarkable with are: guitar, knitting, swing dancing, geometry, Japanese, cartooning, yoga, and that game at the midway where you shoot water into the clown's mouth. jadesylvan.com