About Athena L Falcon

Hazard Yet Forward. All journeys require that you leave something behind as you move forward into uncertainty.

Truer words were never said. I was delivered to the doorstep of Seton Hill University's MFA Writing Popular Fiction program on the tailwinds of a class 5 hurricane. In many ways, I had no idea what I was getting myself into, but it beat what I left behind.

I developed a unique style--mish-mashing medically-tinged vocabulary in a stew of dyslexia--producing a deep, sensory reader's experience of place and character. My mind spits out words, phrases, and concepts that most other sane people would run from, and I spend hours ironing out peculiarities. One consequence is that my writing is frequently described as literary, which is rather a punch in the gut to someone who graduated with an MFA in writing (commercial) popular fiction.

I adjust.

Readers who enjoy my stories are intrigued with complex characters, interwoven plots, and multiple genres. I suppose you could take what I said about language and apply that to a mind bent on complications. If something can go wrong, I seem to conjure something worse on the next page. It's not fluffy stuff, and far more likely to keep you up at night than to put you to sleep. But for someone seeking thematic depth, I craft concepts and complications that you'll ponder well into the wee hours.

I am surrounded by love and compassion in a vibrant midwestern writer's community. I am grateful for their support.