Sally Jane Driscoll... bio

Sometimes a dream won’t let go

“The center of gravity should reside in two:

he and she.”

Anton Chekhov

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THE PERFECT MATCH

2008 San Diego RWA Spring into Romance Long Contemporary Finalist

2008 Coeur de Louisiane Romancing the Tome Contest Honorable Mention

I was born on Manhattan, the oldest of four children, and grew up on Long Island, where most of my summers were spent at Jones Beach. After two years at Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh, I returned to Long Island and finished a B.A. in Art (minors in English and Russian) at SUNY Stony Brook.

My first real job was in New York City, in the advertising and graphics department of Grumbacher, the art materials manufacturer. That’s where I learned about publishing in the days when everything was done by hand.

Since then, my jobs and most of my leisure activities have involved some type of publishing or writing.

For two years, I taught writing at the University of Baltimore, where I earned an M.A. in Publications Design-Creative Writing and Publishing, and co-founded the literary journal, Passager. After fifteen years in the Baltimore area, I moved to Northern California, where I worked part time for a literary agency. As my day job, I’m senior copy editor on a medical journal.

The romance community has been a great help as I learn my new career. I’ve been one of the two Vice-Presidents of Programming for the Silicon Valley chapter of the RWA, and co-coordinator of the Silicon Valley Gotcha! Contest, in addition to belonging to a few other RWA chapters. In 2005 and 2006, I provided a 400-page line edit for Brenda Novak’s Juvenile Diabetes Auction.

My fantastic kids are grown now. One’s in San Francisco and the other’s in San Antonio. Recently, I married Raphael, who’s been my beloved other self for more than a decade. We’ve settled down in the Texas Hill Country, where we plan to live happily ever after.