{"id":6,"date":"2012-06-09T23:36:19","date_gmt":"2012-06-10T03:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soyouwrite.swankivy.com\/?page_id=6"},"modified":"2026-01-19T18:05:31","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T23:05:31","slug":"friday-nights","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/soyouwrite.swankivy.com\/?page_id=6","title":{"rendered":"About Me"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I’m a writer.\u00a0 Obviously.\u00a0 I’m known to many as Ivy, to many more as swankivy, and to a few as names I won’t repeat here.<\/p>\n

I mostly write novels.\u00a0 I also write short stories, poetry, rants, nonfiction, essays, webcomics, articles, and silliness.\u00a0 Several of my articles and short stories are published in various magazines.\u00a0 My nonfiction book on asexuality, The Invisible Orientation<\/em>, is represented by an agent and it was published<\/a> by Skyhorse Publishing\/Carrel Books in September 2014. My novels are a bit in limbo–I signed a trilogy with an agent, but she hit some health problems and then circumstances became mysterious, so I’m looking at offering my next project to another agent next time I have one that’s ready. Some of my short stories are still looking for homes.\u00a0 I’m always doing something new.<\/p>\n

I’m forty-eight years old, not interested in dating or marriage, and not planning to have children.\u00a0 I’m an aromantic asexual<\/a> woman, a vegetarian<\/a>, a natural blonde, an eldest daughter, a soprano, a good speller, an editor, and a creativity junkie.\u00a0 I’m 4’11” tall; I type well over 100 words per minute; I live in Florida, USA; I don’t know how to drive; I have Russian, Hungarian, German, and French heritage; half of my family is from Jewish roots and the other half is from Catholic roots; I live alone in a two-bedroom apartment; and I graduated from the University of Florida in 2000 with a Bachelor’s in\u00a0 elementary education, half a degree’s worth of experience majoring in music (instrument: voice), and a psychology minor.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>My non-writing-related interests include drawing, singing, playing Dance Dance Revolution, gardening, reading, writing book reviews, playing with websites, literary criticism, asexuality awareness activism, tennis, making YouTube videos, baking, riding my bicycle, talking to friends, arts and crafts, science fiction and fantasy, manga and anime, playing with babies, fairy tales and mythology, unusual music, animal rights, musicals and stage shows, ping-pong, outer space, karaoke, journaling, feminism, dreams, candles, cartoons, fat activism, solitude, webcomics, personality analysis, imagination, queer rights, environmentalism, Halloween, humor, inspiration, long hair, copic markers, nature, nostalgia and documentation, and discussion of paganism and atheism.<\/p>\n

Contact me: <\/strong>ivy@swankivy.com<\/p>\n

Links to my other content:\"\"<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n