Meet Trish

Trish Heald is a chameleon who grew up base-to-base in the US Navy. She wore the dry colors of the Mojave Desert, the oceanic colors of San Diego beaches, the evergreen colors of the Pacific Northwest, and the red, white, and blue of the nation’s capital. She needed a lot of therapy and many imaginary friends to find her true colors. Then she got older and couldn’t remember them.

Along the way, she acquired a BA in Communication at Rutgers University and an MBA at Cranfield University in England. She built a professional career as a strategic business advisor, writer, and editor. She raised three now “adulting” humans. After an MA in Transpersonal Psychology, Trish turned her hand to fiction. She is passionate about helping colorful characters through catastrophe and catharsis (her professors advised against working with real people). Humor is her superpower.

Today, Trish loves living in SoCal by the beach. When she isn’t writing, reading, or beachcombing, she’s probably binge-watching Harlan Coben movies with a glass of Sauvignon Blanc.

Sassafras is her debut novel.