About Sera Phyn

I was born in the village of Irvington, NY on May 11th, 1985. I only lived in NY for six weeks or so, though, before moving to South Florida with my parents. We lived off Davie Blvd. for a year before moving to the east side of Ft. Lauderdale where I would spend most of my life. My parents eventually had two other daughters, Haley who was born in 1988 Colleen in 1992.

I started taking dance classes when I was three years old at a studio I continued training with until my junior year of high school. I took piano lessons for a year when I was five, but that didn't turn out so well (I got bored), but I also started singing lessons the same year and those continued through elementary school. For a while, I performed with a semi-professional group from my dance studio, singing while the older dancers changed costumes. Even young, I had a strange comfort on stage. I was shy in small groups, but perfectly at home on stage. I can't say that that much has changed.

I went to a middle school with a magnet program for the performing arts where I specialized in musical theater and spent my freshman and sophomore year of high school at a private Catholic high school before convincing my parents to let me escape back to the freedom of public magnet schools. My junior and senior years were spent studying dance at a performing arts high school. There I was able to reconnect with a lot of the friends I had made in middle school, make some wonderful new ones that I still have today, and perform my first real experimentations with choreography. My senior year I put together a piece to "Herb Girls of Birkenau" by Rasputina which was accepted into the Regional High School Dance Festival. I never went further than that with choreography, though. I graduated in June of 2003.

After high school, I moved to Tallahassee where I enrolled in Florida State University. When I started college, I had no idea what I wanted to do. Ideas like historian, cultural anthropologist, teacher, writer, and psychologist were all floating around my head, but I didn't really know what a career in those fields would be like. So, through my liberal arts classes, I slowly narrowed down my options. I realized pretty quickly that I didn't want to be a cultural anthropologist and that historian wasn't for me. After that I decided to major in Psychology and English and see where life took me. For a short time I thought I wanted to be an elementary school teacher (my own elementary school teachers had a huge and wonderful impact on my life) but the more I learned about the school system, the more I wanted to stay away from it. So I turned to Psychology and decided that, if I couldn't teach, I would teach teachers how to teach by conducting classroom applicable research. I stayed on that path for about a year and a half until my younger sister Haley forced me to read Twilight by Stephenie Meyer. After the jolt that book gave to my creative mind, I started writing again, and I haven't stopped since.