If you want to find Glenda, she'll be in, on, or under water-and writing about it. She understands water sports on a very personal level since she swims, surfs and sails.Glenda wrote a weekly sailing column for the Marin Independent Journal for 19 years. She also wrote for local, national and international sailing publications. She branched into travel writing and her features have appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, Travel & Leisure, Ford Times, Chevron USA, Defenders of Wildlife, and Bay & Delta Yachtsman.¿The Trisha Carson series is set in the San Francisco Bay area. Her books have a swimming undercurrent, based on her own experience in open water swimming. She has raced in more than 150 open water events in Northern California, as well as Hawaii and Perth, Australia. She is listed in Openwaterpedia.comGlenda tutors first-generation high school and college students in English and History. She has an M.A. from Miami University, Oxford, Ohio and a B.A. from Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. She is the president of the Northern California Chapter of Sisters in Crime and is a member of Mystery Writers of America. She lives in San Rafael, CA with her dog McCovey.