E.N. Gussler

Be yourself; Everyone else is already taken.

— Oscar Wilde.

These things always feel like a personal ad. “I like long walks on the beach, hot beverages, animals, and travel.” All true, but not why we’re here.

Like many writers, the creative bug bit me at a very young age. My love for books began at three years old when I learned to read. In typical bookworm/bookdragon form, that consumption of literature grew into a knack for turning a good phrase. I had many dreams for my life in those days, and though I changed some of them around from time to time, Author was always part of that long list.

Daydreamer: A label affixed to me more times than I could possibly count. Even now I find myself falling into that far away place in my mind, imagining a scenario or possibility, weaving those ponderings into potential stories and characters. It is the starting point for many of my ideas.

Originally from (mostly) sunny and (usually) warm Southern California, I have been a transplant to the Midwest since 2009. I now reside in a more rural area of Ohio with my husband, two pitbulls, and some chickens on our little farm. My grown children also live in the area. My daughter lives with her husband and daughter only five minutes away, and my son lives just shy of an hour away, in the city where he works with children on the Autism spectrum.

Although I graduated from high school the summer I turned fifteen, life took some side adventures and I took a break from college. I lived in Japan and taught English for several years before moving back to California to raise my children. Along the way, I got divorced, remarried at thirty, and made that “great migration” to Ohio. Finally completing the degree I sought at the start,  I graduated from The Ohio State University at the ripe age of thirty-seven. I hold a BA in English with a focus on creative writing.

The first of my published works, like many of us, were poems and short stories in anthologies and local publications. More recently, my short stories, self-reflective, and non-fiction pieces have been published on vocal.media.