The title “Literate Beast” comes from my self-described reading habits: I abuse my library card on a monthly basis, and my “to-read” list currently contains twenty-seven dozen titles. I enjoy many forms of entertainment, but reading trumps them all.
I am also a speculative fiction writer who occasionally attempts mainstream fiction and creative nonfiction. It all sounds so much more impressive in the third person, though:
Barbara L.W. Myers earned her BS from the Northwestern University Medill School of Journalism. She has worked as a stay-at-home mom, a freelance journalist, a professional actor, a substitute teacher, a real estate agent, an administrative assistant, a butcher, a baker, and a candlestick maker. Her work has been published in The First Line, and she was a Finalist in the Glimmer Train June 2011 Fiction Open; her story “Ordinals” will appear in a forthcoming short story anthology published by Lonely Robot Comics (Spring 2012). Barbara lives in the south suburbs of Chicago with her husband, two kids, and a house full of imagination.
