B.A. Crisp
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B.A. Crisp

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BA Crisp spent a part of her childhood with an eccentric cigar-smoking, one-legged grandfather. He was an electrical engineer and subcontractor for a large Ohio based nuclear reactor testing facility. She spent afternoons in his 'shop', where he encouraged her curiosity for science and the supernatural. At the age of six, she was removed from his custody. Authorities grew concerned that his love of scotch, lack of regular church attendance, and his penchant for cursing in front of his granddaughter, might be a bad influence. Growing up mostly as a ward of the court and foster child, Crisp read books, fled into the woods, and kept journals as an escape. In the late 1970’s, her "father" moved her to a remote Ohio farm. Unknown to her at the time, some of the area she explored was government restricted property, a place where townsfolk claimed a white Bigfoot roamed. DNA tests later revealed that the man she thought was her ‘dad’, was not. Questions remain… Crisp was thrust back into the juvenile justice system and quickly labeled an unruly runaway. Social workers discovered she was a victim of what is now considered human trafficking (but was then considered willful participation). She barely graduated from high school and spent a few years as a young adult floundering through unaddressed trauma, bars, and bad decisions—until one evening, a former friend of her grandfather paid her a visit at a strip club. With his encouragement, she applied to college, first at Cuyahoga Community College, then Ursuline College, graduating Summa cum Laude. She followed with a master’s degree from The George Washington University’s Graduate School of Political Management, where she earned a valedictorian distinction. Later, she was off to the London School of Journalism before heading to Exeter College at Oxford University to matriculate in an International Summer Students’ Writing Program. Crisp took a brief position as a Psychiatric Assessment Specialist at a Cleveland based metro hospital, in its mental health facility. She worked with what was termed the ‘criminally insane’ and possessed a gift for helping troubled adolescents. She often butt heads with her supervisor, a highly intelligent department chair and medical doctor. Additionally, she worked a short time as a journalist, and later co-owned a strip club (long story that may be a book someday). She forged the very first Penthouse licensing agreement with General Media Communications, but the strip club was sold shortly after to Larry Flynt and Harry Mohney's group (Deja Vu) and became a Hustler Club in Cleveland, which still exists today. She worked too, as a vetted volunteer for the Collier County Sherriff's Office with its Special Crimes Bureau Anti-Human Trafficking Unit. Through public and private sector connections she volunteered in the fight against human trafficking, helping to build programs and policies. She was also a 2015 Homeland Security Director’s Service Award Nominee, meeting the mandates of the White House and Congress, in the battle against human trafficking. She forged a career in strategic intelligence, advising on matters of national security, business, and anti-human trafficking efforts. Along her life's unconventional journey, she's met a cornucopia of interesting characters way too dignified to name here. In 2019, Red Bird, the first installment of The Quanta Chronicles, was born. It became a #1 bestseller x2, followed by X Point (#4 in Sci-Fi) and Emergent (March 2023 release). Loosely based on true events, Samantha Ryan Blake, ultimate anti-hero, is forced to reconcile science with the sacred. With the help of her ‘tribe’—eleven globally diverse cohorts who joined her as part of a secret governmental experiment involving ‘species enhancement’, Blake struggles to make sense of her world, otherworldly visitors, and her place among 'pure humans'.
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