Yvonne Navarro

Current

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

Past

Legal Secretary at Rudnick & Wolfe

Education

Cochise College

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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 (6 years 8 months)
Author

Self-employed

(Self-Employed; Writing and Editing industry)

January 1981 — Present (28 years 11 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

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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