Patricia J. Esposito is author of the vampire novel Beside the Darker Shore and has published numerous works in anthologies and magazines, including Apparitions, Queer Fish 2, Hungur, Midnight Street, Scarlet Literary Magazine, Not One of Us,and Rose and Thorn. She has received honorable mentions in Ellen Datlow's The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror and is a Pushcart Prize nominee.
-Some of my hardest laughing comes when roughhousing with my constant companion, an eighty-five-pound Golden Retriever who thinks nothing of pouncing full-body on me.
-The crystal bowls I received as wedding gifts contain polished stones from the shores of Lake Superior.
-At home I prefer to drink only water, at the coffee shop, only chai tea, and at parties, only Courvoisier.
-I often have to work at home till late at night due to lost time making snow forts or playing ninjas with the neighbor kids (and my dog, of course). Fun is a distraction I encourage.
-Despite the convenience of iPhone music, at all times, my purse is weighted with the music CDs I can’t live without; after all, if I were to get stranded on a desert island, at least I could hold the CDs against me and imagine their sound.