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Shaddyr spent her formative years in northern Manitoba where three things made a lasting impression on her; turning into an icicle while walking to school in the winter cold; playing tag till almost 10 PM on long July evenings when dusk stretched on forever; and the breathtaking wonder of the aurora borealis as they danced across the sky, the most amazing light show on Earth, right in her back yard. The last one convinced her that she needed to be an astronaut when she grew up.

Once past the disappointment of learning NASA didn't accept Canadian schoolgirls into the space program, she settled for the next best thing, and began to follow the adventures of Captain Kirk, Major Donald West, and Commander Koenig. In her teens, her family relocated to a small prairie town with zero fannish influence where SF&F was Just. Not. Cool. In spite of this, she managed to discover many more worlds and adventures through Robert Heinlein, Anne McCaffrey, Spider Robinson and other great writers. She would like to thank small town librarians everywhere, who have been responsible for saving the sanity of geeks such as herself over the years. Eventually, she escaped the frozen wastelands and made her way to British Columbia. While you rarely see the Aurora Borealis that far south, she thinks the ocean and mountains more than make up for it. Plus, it's cool to watch tourists freak out about the "flying saucers" at night when Grouse's Nest lights up.

Three things made a big impression on her when she moved to Vancouver. Winter only comes about once every 3 or 4 years; mountains are AWESOME; and, there are a lot of geeks and fans in the Pacific Northwest - the most amazing collection of like-minded people, right in her back yard. That last once convinced her that she was finally home.

Over the years, she was fortunate enough to find (and be found by) musical fen and introduced to the really fantastically amazing thing known as filk. There were SONGS about her favourite BOOKS and TV SHOWS, and people even wanted her to write some of her own! It was kind of like coming home all over again.

Like many other fen, Shaddyr is quite proud to be called a geek and a nerd. She is doubly pleased when she gets to contribute back to fandom in various ways; over the years, she’s run kidcons, hospitality suites, and filk rooms at various conventions such as VCON, Westercon, NONCON, Writercon and Conflikt. Most recently, she just finished a gig co-chairing an SF convention where she discovered three things; she really is happier being a minion in charge of a department; Larry Niven likes filk and has a pretty decent tenor; filk music is really her favourite thing about cons - the most amazing group of fans, all right there for her to make harmonies with. That last one – well. If your a filker, it’s not like she needs to explain it to you.

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