She now lives in Manassas, Virginia, with her husband and collaborator Tee Morris.

She attended Samuel Marsden Collegiate School and went on to graduate from Victoria University of Wellington with a BA in English and Political Science.

She also holds a Bachelor of Applied Science in Library Studies from The Open Polytechnic of New Zealand.

[2] She is also the co-author with her husband Tee Morris of the "Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences" novels.

[4] The sequel The Janus Affair was a Locus Bestseller[5] and won the Steampunk Chronicle Readers Choice award for Best Fiction.