Ocean Capewell used to get in trouble for answering the phone rudely when she was in the middle of writing a story. Her parents’ friends were horrified at the snarled, “what??!!”, not knowing how hard it is to get started again when you’re interrupted in the midst of inspiration, not knowing what they were interrupting. Now she has a cell phone and misses being so completely wrapped up in writing that nothing came before it—not social obligations or work or money or despair. Ocean Capewell has been writing stories since 1987, poems since 1990 and zines since 1996. Despite computers getting stolen, lovers complaining about their portrayals, computers crashing, boneheaded critiques, wrists getting sore and life getting wild, she has no intention of stopping. She lives in Oakland, CA and is a counselor, prison abolitionist, and storyteller.