J.L. Clancy is a graduate of the University of New Mexico. She has been interested in storytelling her entire life, taking creative writing courses in high school, minoring in English Literature and majoring in drama in college. Science fiction has always fascinated her, as well as science devoted to the study of space-time theory, the Big Bang theory and black holes. Her favorite authors include: Phillip K. Dick, Robert Heinlein, Arthur C. Clark, James Blish, Alan Lightman and Stephen Hawking. J.L. Clancy has also written children's fiction and juvenile fiction, under another pseudonym.