sentences:  She is the 2002 Bram Stoker Award winner for Best Poetry Collection, "The Gossamer Eye" (along with Mark McLaughlin and David Niall Wilson), and the 2013 winner of the Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Poetry along with Linda Addison, Charlee Jacob, and Marge Simon for "The Four Elements".Her first published story, "Thoughts of Anna," ("Transylvanian Society of Dracula", 1997) won 2nd place for the creative writing contest at the convention Dracula 97.Rain currently lives in San Francisco and tours the country doing spoken word events.