Lois Ann Abraham grew up in the Southwest and attended the University of New Mexico, where she won the Freshman Honors prize one semester and dropped out the next. After a brief but enjoyable stint as a singer/songwriter in Berkeley, she completed her education and taught English at American River College in Sacramento where she resides with her sisters and cats. She is the author of Circus Girl and Other Stories and Tina Goes to Heaven.

Circus Girl and Other Stories
A little girl discovers the power of the creative impulse. A woman remembers her first confusing sexual encounter. An aging flower child travels to Mexico to save her daughter. A baby is born with blue feet. A man ponders his ex-wife's last word. A collection of short stories in which characters thirst for clarity, self-discovery, a new life…

Tina Goes to Heaven

An irreverent and madcap coming-of-age novel about a resilient woman's journey to find a place to finally call home. After a successful bank robbery to fund her escape from a sordid life, Tina ends up stranded at a rustic fishing resort in the Sierra Nevada. To stay there and remain safe, she must find a way to make herself indispensable to the proprietor…