McGee Mathews

Author

McGee Mathews won the 2019 Lesfic Bard Awards for excellence in writing and storytelling in the category of New Author for her novel Moving Violations. Her second book Exceeding Expectations, part of the Ladies of Diamond Lake series, was also self-published before she signed with Sapphire Books.
 

She is a member of the Golden Crown Literary Society, Rainbow Romance Writers and, formerly, the Romance Writers of America.

McGee finds inspiration for her historical characters in her lifelong hobby of genealogy. She comes from a long line of potato farmers and Quakers. Four hundred years ago, her wife’s ancestors owned the fiefdom McGee’s family worked on in northern England. This annoys her to no end. She maintains that she is not a chihuahua and families, not bloodlines, are the most important. For her contemporary works, she is drawn to blue-collar gals with sass, often tapping into her experiences playing bass guitar in a rock band for twenty years.

An Army brat, McGee was predominantly raised in Garden City, Michigan. A Jill of all trades, master of none, McGee has a B.S. in biology from Western Michigan University and has worked in numerous, underpaid, overworked positions including automotive engineering, facilities maintenance, and teaching chemistry. She currently writes full time.

McGee and her wife of over 26 years raised three children on a farm in South Carolina. She has retired from chasing goats but still enjoys rural life. She counts the days until her wife can retire so they can begin their travels as RV nomads.