Kristene Perron has been called a renaissance woman, which she feels sounds so much better than 'perpetually undecided'. She is a writer and has always been a storyteller, but along the way she has also been a professional stunt performer (as Kristene Kenward), managed adventure resorts in the Caribbean and the South Pacific, patched up animals as a veterinary assistant, and swung a hammer doing construction.Her stories have appeared in Storyteller Magazine, Barbaric Yawp, Hemispheres Magazine, and Denizens of Darkness. In 2007 she won second place in Writer's Digest's Short-Short Story Competition, and in 2010 she won the Surrey International Writers' Conference Storyteller Award. In 2009, Kristene collaborated with Joshua Simpson, a Texan, on a short story, which quickly became a full length novel manuscript, and then morphed into an outline of a five book series. The first three books of this adventure science fiction series--Warpworld, Wasteland Renegades, and Ghost World--are available now, and she continues to write short stories when she actually has that rare thing known as "free time". In 2014, the first Warpworld novel won Honorable Mention in the Eric Hoffer Book Awards (Commercial Fiction category) and was a Montaigne Medal finalist.Pathologically nomadic, Kristene has lived on both sides of the equator and in several time zones. Beautiful Nelson, BC, Canada is her current home, shared with her ever-patient husband, Fred, who reminds her to eat and even manages to get her out of the writing cave now and then.www.warpworld.ca