Darci Hannah
A Relatively Relevant Bio of Darci Hannah
Ever since childhood Ms. Hannah has been intoxicated with historic adventure. While still in high school she backpacked in the footsteps of the Louis and Clark expedition. Next, she donned the cap of a French voyageur, got in a canoe and followed the northern route of the French explorer, LaSalle, as well as canoed across thousands of acres of northern Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michigan and southern Canada—all for fun. She also delighted in sailing the Great Lakes and riding horses. In addition to wilderness adventures, Ms. Hannah became a ski patrol and instructor at the age of sixteen, and the youngest person at that time to pass for Nordic Patrol.
Although Ms. Hannah harbored dreams of skiing professionally, her parents pulled the plug on such frivolity and sent her to Indiana University where she pursued a career in Sports Medicine, though filled much of her curriculum with history and creative writing courses. Since southern Indiana is not known for its skiing, having a disparaging lack of the white stuff, Ms. Hannah took to cycling, yet found no collegiate cycling events for women other than a degrading tricycle race. She petitioned for a women’s competition equivalent to the men’s race and in her senior year, along with her teammates, won the first ever women’s cycling event in the history of IU. While also at IU she researched an ancient shipwreck and spent two weeks in the Cayman Islands diving on site, preserving ancient tile and cannon ball recovered from the sea floor; the fabled buccaneer treasure is yet to be found!
Ms. Hannah graduated with a Bachelors of Science degree and pursued a career in medicine, yet soon found that her creativity would best be served in another venue. She began working for a Chicago based printing conglomerate and soon took over production on the Detroit car companies including, Cadillac and Audi of America. However, when the first of her three children was born, Ms. Hannah made the tough decision to stay at home.
While not possessing the budget of Martha Stewart, she made frugality a way of life, experimenting in the garden with fruits and veggies, as well as concocting benign ancient medicinals using herbs and ‘other things’ the 17th century alchemist, Nicholas Culpepper recommended. It was at this time (the brainchild of an early morning feeding) that Ms. Hannah decided to write a novel, one in which she could continue to live an adventurous life, while not giving up the sacred maternal rite of changing dirty diapers, wiping snotty noses and maintaining general domestic felicity. She soon found herself working nights and weekends at Barnes and Noble, acquainting herself with the book industry while beginning research in earnest.
Along with her novel, The Viking, Ms. Hannah has also produced numerous poems and epistles, five childrens’ books and copy for brochures and local advertising, most of which was given away for gratia placendi (the delight of pleasing). She is also an active member of several local writing groups. Fans of her writing traverse the United States as well as reside in such places as Denmark and the UK.
Ms. Hannah currently lives in Michigan with her husband, three sons and corpulent but loving Springer Spaniel, Barkley