My name is Tee Iseminger. I write stories.

I'm drawn to and fascinated by cold and isolated places, but in an on-again-off-again love affair of twelve years, I keep returning home to the high Nevada desert. My husband has been a good sport about this.

Academically I'm interested in the different ways we shape our world views through fiction vs. non-fiction, and to indulge that I'm working toward my MA in Literature & the Environment. My non-fiction (essays, blogs) often revolves around sense of place, and a centrist's view of the human-environment confluence.

But my primary focus is fiction. I have two novels and a short story in progress, and a long list of seeded ideas trailing behind those. I like to weave a story through the backdrop of pervasive social issues – drug addiction, mental health, teen pregnancy – and explore how the lights and darks of those thread through us as individuals, families, communities. But the context and fabric of place still looms large.

I like lots of other things, but mostly meteor showers, green grapes, rivers, puzzling contradictions, Words with Friends, rocks, tiramisu, canoes, anonymity in Manhattan, and the cheeky endurance of coyotes.

You can contact me at teeiseminger@gmail.com, find me on Twitter @teeiseminger, or visit my blog at teeiseminger.tumblr.com.