Sybil Johnson grew up in the Pacific Northwest. She fell in love with mysteries reading Encyclopedia Brown and Nancy Drew. In junior high, she discovered Agatha Christie. After high school graduation, Sybil moved south to attend the University of Southern California, majoring in Computer Science. After twenty years of designing and writing code and managing programmers and software development projects, she turned to a life of crime writing.Her short fiction has appeared in Mysterical-E, Spinetingler Magazine, King’s River Life Magazine, Crimson Dagger, and Silver Moon Magazine.A past president of Sisters in Crime/Los Angeles, Sybil co-chaired the 2011 California Crime Writers Conference. She also served as We Love Libraries Coordinator for SinC National. In her spare time, she enjoys studying ancient languages (Ancient Egyptian and Coptic are her current areas of interest), and spending time with friends and family.