Yvonne Navarro

Current

• Contractor - Administrative Operations Officer at Defense Intelligence Agency
• Author at Self-employed
• Author (Self-employed)

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Past

• Legal Secretary at Rudnick & Wolfe

Education

• Cochise College

Recommended

1 person has recommended Yvonne

Connections

63 connections

Industry

Writing and Editing

Websites

• My Website
• My Blog
• My Company

Yvonne Navarro’s Summary

I'm the author of twenty professionally published fiction and media tie-in novels, as well as a writer's name reference dictionary. Awards include the Bram Stoker Award, the Chicago Women in Publishing Award for Excellence in Adult Fiction, the Rocky Mountain News "Unreal Worlds" Award, and several Illinois Women in Publishing Mate E. Palmer Communications Contests Awards and National Federation of Press Women awards (both for novels and short fiction).

I've written in the categories of dark fantasy, horror, suspense, science fiction, romance and mystery. Media projects include novels for the movies Hellboy, Elektra, and Ultraviolet, as well as books in the Aliens and Species series and seven Buffy the Vampire Slayer novels.

Yvonne Navarro’s Specialties:

Fiction of all types, editing. Familiar with a number of movie and television series.

Yvonne Navarro’s Experience

• Contractor - Administrative Operations Officer

  Defense Intelligence Agency

  (Government Agency; 10,001 or more employees; Government Administration industry)

  April 2003 — Present (5 years 2 months)

• Author

  Self-employed

  (Writing and Editing industry)

  1993 — Present (15 years)

• Author

  Self-employed

  (Self-Employed; Writing and Editing industry)

  January 1981 — Present (27 years 5 months)

  Professionally published author of more than twenty fiction, non-fiction, and media tie-in novels.

• Legal Secretary

  Rudnick & Wolfe

  (Partnership; 201-500 employees; Legal Services industry)

  June 1985 — April 1999 (13 years 11 months)

  Legal secretary to several managing partners, associates, and paralegals over my fourteen years at this firm. This time span included work in the franchise, corporate, and real estate departments. After several mergers, this law firm is now called DLA Piper and is one of the largest in the world.

Yvonne Navarro’s Education

• Cochise College

Additional Information

Yvonne Navarro’s Websites:

• My Website
• My Blog
• My Company

Yvonne Navarro’s Interests:

writing, reading, martial arts, novels, comics, fiction, movies, great danes, dogs, horror, science fiction, fantasy, suspense, mystery, rescue dogs, recycling, arizona, hiking, writer, author, publishing, novelist, teacher, military intelligence, food, wine, chocolate

Yvonne Navarro’s Groups:

*The Authors Guild, *IAMTW, *Horror Writers Association, *Twilight Tales, *NECON, *Shocklines, *Persephone

•    Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières member
•    World Wildlife Fund member
•    American Red Cross member
•    Horror Writers Association member
•    International Association of Media Tie-In Writers member

Yvonne Navarro’s Honors:

*Bram Stoker Award
*IWPA 2001 Mate E. Palmer Communications Contest
*NFPW 2001 Communications Contest, Unreal Worlds Award

Yvonne Navarro’s Contact Settings

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