Bea Oertel started trying her hand at creative writing while attending a teacher’s training program at university. After writing short stories and pieces of travel writing, she embarked on the ambitious project of writing a science fiction novel when recent world events happened that felt like the beginnings of a darker time in history. The experience of growing government overreach, censorship and the isolation of certain people groups created an eerie foreboding of a dystopian future in the author.  The first scene of The Warehouse came to her in a dream, in which she was the protagonist, Kim, and felt all her intense emotions of abandonment, loneliness and fear.

 Bea’s daytime job is teaching writing at a private college. In her spare time, when she is not writing dystopian novels, Bea is found camping and hiking all over B.C. with her trusty four-legged companion Almendra. Currently, she is working on part 2 of The New World Trilogy. New ideas are percolating in her mind like espresso.