Foinah Jameson (1968-) lives in Portland, Oregon, the delightfully weird center of the Pacific Northwest, and spends her days with a fabulous husband, two Norse gods disguised as her daughters, and a menagerie of used animals. At night, Foinah sneaks out to her office on the back deck under an umbrella where she writes feverishly on a battered Mac laptop, typing away madly until the sun rises. Dark, comic, creepy tales come to life as she sips cold coffee and chain smokes aromatic cigars in the crisp night air.She is the author of Marker of Faith -- a supernatural thriller, Mostly Dead Melvin -- an urban fantasy laced with dark humor, and Weeku -- a soon-to-be-released graphic novel featuring the amazing art work of Michael O'Manion. Her short stories and novellas run the gamut of the supernatural to poignant vignettes of everyday life.In a previous life Foinah was a musician, a publican, a fortune teller, a chef, a burgeoning astrophysicist, and an artist rep.Now a domestic goddess and a mother by day/writer by night, Foinah enjoys her alter ego as the smoking monkey who gets to use a laptop...She blogs nonsense, as often as possible, at http://foinah-smokingsimianscribbles.blogspot.com/"Writing is so much cheaper than therapy! And you can drink while you do it."