About the Author
Bronwyn Sciance "published" her first book at the age of six, a story about a girl named Alexandra and her cat Shadow who got lost in a rather extensive garden, called "Under the Lilacs". She wrote the story for a spelling exercise in first grade, edited it, organized it, typed it up with the help of her mother on a Macintosh computer and "The Amazing Writing Machine" software, did what she laughingly calls "artwork", printed it on hot pink paper, bound it in plastic sheet protectors tied with rainbow yarn, and presented it to her teacher/principal. That copy still resides at The McLea Day School, where she attended at the time.
Today, Bronwyn is a senior in college, where she is majoring in what else but English with a concentration in Creative Writing, and would be perfectly happy to do nothing but write for the rest of her life. She is a geek, an obsessive reader, a New Yorker by birth, a Virginian by the infinite wisdom of the US Navy. She is a slightly overweight person (in the sense that the Pacific Ocean is a slightly damp area) who likes wolves, Broadway musicals, and bizarre mixes of country and oldies music. A former Girl Scout, she does her best to be honest, to be fair, to help where she is needed, to be cheerful, to be friendly and considerate, to be a sister to those around her, to respect authority, to use resources wisely, to protect and improve the world around her, and to show respect for herself and others through her words and actions. (She still says the Girl Scout Law the way it was in 1994, when she joined Daisy Girl Scouts, and refuses to accept any later revisions.) She is a singer, a flautist, a writer, a United Methodist, and a child of God.
Bronwyn is an active member of the Epsilon Sigma chapter of the Phi Sigma Sigma sorority and enjoys spending time with her sisters, whether they are watching movies, playing card games, going on midnight beach runs, or just sitting around in someone's dorm room surfing the Internet and reading at one another. Aspects of her sisters can be found in her writing, not on purpose (usually) but because certain characters take on certain aspects of people she knows. She has a skewed sense of humor, as shown by her personal motto: Laugh, and the world laughs at you; cry, and the world laughs harder. On occasion inside jokes slip into her writing, rarely getting explained because she likes watching people's minds struggle with casually thrown-out statements like "That is NOT my banana". She still writes on a Macintosh computer, although it is a MacBook Pro liberally adorned with stickers, which she claims is named Siobhan. She also uses a Smith-Corona Coronet 12 Automatic Typewriter on occasion, although not as often as she used to, since the Shift-Lock key is somehow damaged, so that her typewritten pages always look like they are yelling. (She would welcome any suggestions for fixing this.)
Besides writing, Bronwyn's hobbies include numerology, tarot and rune stones, and she has made birth charts for a number of her friends. She also enjoys crocheting and counted cross-stitch. She is a member of the National Forensics League and lettered in Forensics (public speaking, not digging up dead bodies) in high school. A former IB student, she missed getting the diploma by one point because of a 3 in Higher Level Physics, which is two more than she feels she deserves. She is a French teacher at McLea and also plays piano for the Christmas program and end-of-year assembly each year. Much of her time outside of this is spent correcting the pronunciation or spelling of her name. She is half-Norwegian on her mother's side and very proud of that fact. Her favorite colors are grey, purple, and blue, which makes for an interesting color scheme in her dorm room. Bronwyn collects quotes, sweatshirts, hymnals, rosewood boxes, and baby dolls.
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