Irene Radford
Irene Radford is Phyllis Irene Radford, a.k.a. Irene Radford, a.k.a. P.R. Frost, a.k.a. C.F. Bentley: author, editor, dancer, teacher, lacemaker.
Born 9/17/50 in Portland, Oregon, USA to Lt. USCG Edwin Smith Radford and Miriam Elizabeth Radford née Bentley. Graduated Tigard High School Tigard, Oregon 1968, National Honor Society and National Thespian Society. B.A in History from Lewis & Clark College 1971. Participated in overseas studies tour for 2 quarters to United Kingdom.
Married Timothy L. Karr 1971. One son, Benjamin Colin born 1973.
Radford trained in classical ballet from an early age, studying with Catherine Cassarno in Lake Oswego, Oregon and performed with the acclaimed pro/am company Ballet du Lace 1966-1975. She then turned to teaching until sidelined by a serious injury.
Seeking a new career, Radford has worked as an insurance underwriter, retail clerk in a fabric store, and assistant curator of the McLoughlin House Museum. Always fascinated with textile, Radford learned tatting and bobbin lace with the Portland Lace Society and served as newsletter editor for 6 years. Her textiles frequently won blue ribbons at state and county fairs and have been exhibited in the McLoughlin House Museum.
Family legend claims Radford began writing stories as soon as she figured out which end of a pencil makes marks and which made them go away. However, she did not take her writing seriously until her mid-thirties.
Her first fantasy, The Dragon Nimbus Series was published by DAW Books in December 1994, followed by The Dragon Nimbus History, and The Stargods Trilogy. Radford's masterwork five volumes of Merlin's Descendants began appearing in 1999.
In 2006 Radford turned her talents to urban fantasy with Hounding the Moon a Tess Noncoiré Adventure writing as P.R. Frost. Faery Moon, 3rd in the series was a freshfiction.com pick of the day, June 19, 2009.
Then Radford's interests jumped to a new series, that she refers to as a spiritual journey with a literary twist in a space opera landscape, she reinvented herself again and became C.F. Bentley to write Harmony, 2008 and Enigma, 2009.
Radford and her husband live in the foothills of Mt. Hood in Oregon.
Born 9/17/50 in Portland, Oregon, USA to Lt. USCG Edwin Smith Radford and Miriam Elizabeth Radford née Bentley. Graduated Tigard High School Tigard, Oregon 1968, National Honor Society and National Thespian Society. B.A in History from Lewis & Clark College 1971. Participated in overseas studies tour for 2 quarters to United Kingdom.
Married Timothy L. Karr 1971. One son, Benjamin Colin born 1973.
Radford trained in classical ballet from an early age, studying with Catherine Cassarno in Lake Oswego, Oregon and performed with the acclaimed pro/am company Ballet du Lace 1966-1975. She then turned to teaching until sidelined by a serious injury.
Seeking a new career, Radford has worked as an insurance underwriter, retail clerk in a fabric store, and assistant curator of the McLoughlin House Museum. Always fascinated with textile, Radford learned tatting and bobbin lace with the Portland Lace Society and served as newsletter editor for 6 years. Her textiles frequently won blue ribbons at state and county fairs and have been exhibited in the McLoughlin House Museum.
Family legend claims Radford began writing stories as soon as she figured out which end of a pencil makes marks and which made them go away. However, she did not take her writing seriously until her mid-thirties.
Her first fantasy, The Dragon Nimbus Series was published by DAW Books in December 1994, followed by The Dragon Nimbus History, and The Stargods Trilogy. Radford's masterwork five volumes of Merlin's Descendants began appearing in 1999.
In 2006 Radford turned her talents to urban fantasy with Hounding the Moon a Tess Noncoiré Adventure writing as P.R. Frost. Faery Moon, 3rd in the series was a freshfiction.com pick of the day, June 19, 2009.
Then Radford's interests jumped to a new series, that she refers to as a spiritual journey with a literary twist in a space opera landscape, she reinvented herself again and became C.F. Bentley to write Harmony, 2008 and Enigma, 2009.
Radford and her husband live in the foothills of Mt. Hood in Oregon.
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