Biography
T. M. Baumgartner is a speculative fiction writer who has difficulty following directions. This has occasionally produced culinary triumphs, but also once necessitated using a bread knife to lop off six inches of pressboard when assembling a cabinet.
At various times she has been a veterinarian, Unix system administrator, software developer, and after-hours book-shelver in a medical library.
Being too stubborn for her own good has been her most useful trait in life, though it was not often described as a virtue during her early years. Had it been a category, she would have been voted ‘Least likely to turn in homework on time (or at all)’ for twelve years in a row. However, she would like to point out that she was assigned the front row center seat in high school purely because her algebra teacher had dealt with her older brothers.
Theresa currently lives in a house with too many animals in Northern California, where she knits hats for garden gnomes and runs with scissors only when absolutely necessary.