Award winning author CJ Lyons has lived
most of her life on the edges of the bell-curve. Trained in
Pediatric Emergency Medicine, she has assisted police and prosecutors
with cases involving child abuse, rape, homicide and Munchausen
by Proxy. She has worked in numerous trauma centers, on the
Navajo reservation, as a crisis counselor, victim advocate,
as well as a flight physician for Life Flight and Stat Medevac.
These skills have proved useful during CJ's
adventures both in the US and abroad. She participated in an
archeological expedition in the Outback of Australia sponsored
by the Kuku Djugan tribe and is one of few people allowed access to explore
the
Hell's Gate Wilderness Preserve in Kenya on foot during an environmental impact
survey of the Lake Navisha region. She has also traveled extensively in the
US, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and the Caribbean.
Winner of the Golden Gateway and a Golden
Heart Finalist in Romantic Suspense, CJ is a member of Romance
Writers of America, Sisters in Crime and Kiss of
Death. She has contributed several columns to the Kiss of Death newsletter.
Her suspense
novel, BLINK OF AN EYE, will be published by Tor Books, summer 2006.
She holds
an orange belt in Kempo and enjoys hiking, white water rafting,
and outdoor photography when she is not writing or practicing medicine.
