WORLDS THAT NEVER WERE

Trina Allen is a writer, educator, and aspiring author. She grew up in St. Louis, Missouri, the oldest of five sisters. She married as a teenager and moved to California, then Conneticut, and finally found her way to central New York. Graduating Summa Cum Laude from the State University of New York at Cortland with a BS in elementary and early secondary science education, Trina earned her MS in reading education in 1993 while working as an elementary school teacher in central New York. She moved to North Carolina in 1996 – making it the sixth state she’s called home. Trina taught middle school science in Orange and Wake Counties in North Carolina before deciding to trade the classroom for a keyboard. She currently works as a science education researcher at a corporation that develops and scores educational tests.

Trina is an avid thriller reader whose imagination takes her away, anytime, day or night. Time to daydream is a luxury she loves, and sometimes indulges in when she should be doing other things – to the chagrin of her husband and anyone who is driving on the highway during her commute to and from Durham.

Her favorite authors include Tess Gerritsen, John Sandford, David Baldacci, Diane Chamberlain, Michael Palmer, and Stephen King. Probably, because she has never grown up, Trina likes to read books for young adults and children. Her favorite children’s authors are too numerous to name, but include Catharine Patterson, AVI, Esther Forbes, Howard Fast, Irene Hunt, EL Konigsburg, Jonathan Stroud, and Jack London.

Trina lives in Raleigh, North Carolina, happily married to writer and poet Harry Calhoun. She has one child, a grown daughter, who lives in central New York with her grandson. When she doesn’t have her nose in a book or her fingers flying across the keyboard, Trina enjoys traveling, roller coasters, hiking, swimming, cooking, wine, playing chess, and films – romantic comedies and, you guessed it, thrillers.

For more information, or to view some of Trina’s writing visit www.trinaallen.com.