ABOUT THE AUTHOR

   Colleen Rae began writing in her twenties when she started traveling around the world, keeping journals and travel diaries of all the exotic places she experienced.

   She studied Creative Writing, Novel Writing and the Art of the Short Story with Guy Biederman, of Sebastopol, California, an extraordinary teacher and human being. The Fourth Street Writers, a group of eight women who read their writings around the San Francisco Bay Area, were her support group for many years.    Colleen and the Fourth Street Writers published an anthology of short stories, in 2004, entitled, Nearly Naked, by Wordrunner Press of Petaluma, California, Jo Anne Rosen, editor.
   Colleen has written five novels; Mohave Mambo is her debut novel, also published by Wordrunner Press.
   She has published several articles for dance magazines under her stage name, Kalifa. Recently she published an article in Bellydance Magazine, a tribute to her long-time dance instructor, Bert Balladine who passed away this year.
   For the past four years she has worked as a Staff Correspondent for the Local Observer of Saugatuck, Michigan.
   She lives in Western Michigan with her life partner, Larry, and her three cats, Bubba Bear, Samantha, and Kali.