The short version:
I live in Pennsylvania, where I work as a librarian. My fiction has appeared in Little Blue Marble, Deep Magic, Metaphorosis, Andromeda Spaceways Magazine, and Beneath Ceaseless Skies. I have a fondness for retold fairy tales, hopepunk, and happily ever after. When my nose isn’t buried in a book, I’m frequently found talking to birds or gazing at the stars.
Long version:
I’ve been writing since I was in elementary school. My early stories inevitably involved unicorns and a blonde princess named Katie, and I wrote them with great excitement. The excitement remains, although the blonde princesses and unicorns are less common these days.
In 2011, I attended the Odyssey Writing Workshop. For anyone interested in writing fantasy, science fiction, or horror (collectively known as speculative fiction), I highly recommend taking the time to do this. Because of my attending Odyssey, I made my first professional sale to Daily Science Fiction. I’ve since sold stories to Deep Magic, Metaphorosis, Andromeda Spaceways Magazine, Little Blue Marble, and Beneath Ceaseless Skies, among others. I have a fondness for retold fairy tales, hopepunk, and happily ever after.
I spend my days working as a librarian. When my nose isn’t buried in a book, you can usually find me talking to birds or gazing at the stars. I live in Pennsylvania with The Wonderful Husband and some of the most adorable parakeets on the planet.
If you’re wondering how to pronounce my last name, Yelinek has two acceptable pronunciations. The everyday one: YELL-i-neck. The fancy one: Ye-LYNN-eck.
As proof that writers really do have an unquenchable need to write, here is one of my favorite pictures of me, taken while on a trip to Baffin Island, Arctic Canada, to see narwhals.