Hilary Moon Murphy: Adventures With An Elephant-Headed Muse

Random Facts About Me

My Name Really is Hilary Moon Murphy!

It even says so on my driver's license.

Birthdate

July 19th, 1966

Relationships

Divorced once, married twice. My second husband, Andy, is definitely a keeper. Have three furry children (all cats) who are feeling miserably displaced by our (non-furry) son and daughter. Check out the photographs! In addition to my family, I have many friends, both online and in the flesh.

Education

Mistress of Library Science
Undergrad Majors in Psychology & South Asian Studies
In high school, I was voted "most likely to found a cult."

Jobs Listed on Resume

Computer repair person
Reader for the blind
Montessori preschool teacher
Librarians of various flavors and specialties
Administrator of Meetup.com's Message Boards

Jobs NOT Listed on Resume

Professional tarot reader
Juggling instructor
Nude model on a television commercial

Home

Minneapolis, Minnesota

Other places I have lived for a year or more

San Francisco, California
London, England
Freeport, Bahamas
Northfield, Minnesota
Iowa City, Iowa
Pune, India

Hobbies

Cooking
Home maintenance (but only because Andy forces me!)
Bicycling
Dancing
Chess & card games (I own fifty chess sets, most of them antiques, collected from the far corners of the world.)
Tarot reading
Unicycling
Personal finance
Wasting time on online forums like the Speculations Rumormill.
Organizer of the Twin Cities SF Writer Meetup (It's fun! Join us!)

Journal

I used to keep an online journal, but the effort of maintaining it took too much time and energy from my fiction writing. The curious are free to look at the journal's archives, which are still on this site.

Quirks

Profoundly religious, but without a trace of evangelism. My personal flavor of religion is the Society of Friends, otherwise known as Quakers. As a corollary to my faith, I've been a vegetarian for sixteen years.

Gregarious chatterbox and outrageous flirt. I have been told my extroversion scores are off the charts. I'm quite capable of having long, heartfelt conversations with people I just met on the bus.

Research junkie. I have this compulsion to seek out the answers to fugitive facts and stumpers, and am an enormous fan of Cecil Adams' The Straight Dope.

Publication Credits

I have publication credits! Check out the (alas, still far too slim) bibliography.

Writing Speed

Glacial. I had hoped that Clarion would help with this, but it didn't.

(For more information on the Clarion Workshops, see Clarion Ex Machina.)

Miscellaneous

My elephant-headed muse, Ganpati-Baba, haunts me when I don't get my writing done and leaves crumbs all over my bed.

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