Lynette Moyer has been a writer all her life, starting at age 8 when she wrote, illustrated, and bound little books. She graduated to filling diaries and notebooks with handwritten sentimental hogwash, everything from neat rhyming poems to knockoffs of Nancy Drew mysteries. As a teen, she spent a year in Brazil, living with a Brazilian family. She majored in English at CU-Boulder and nearly finished a Ph.D. at UW-Madison. Her dissertation research centered on the poet Elizabeth Bishop. Her husband Bert gained a tenure-track job at Virginia Tech. The move to Blacksburg and the job of parenthood derailed the dissertation. She and Bert raised three daughters, while also sharing a love of mountains. They spent one entire summer camping, starting in Rocky Mountain National Park and working northward into Canada. Other adventures took them to England, Italy, Portugal, and (Bert’s favorite) China. Bert was Chair of the History Department at Virginia Tech when he was diagnosed with lymphoma. He died five years later. Lynette taught English and Humanities courses at Virginia Tech. Returning to Longmont, Colorado, she lives in a house her grandfather built, cohabiting with ancestral ghosts. She writes stories, poems, and yes, murder mysteries.
