Tory Hartmann is a freelance writer living in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her non-fiction has been published in the San Francisco Chronicle, San Mateo County Times, and Parenting on the Peninsula. Her fiction has been published in The Sand Hill Review, Descant, The Hurricane Review, The Homestead Review, Ship’s Log: Writings at Sea, Tattoo Highway,
San Francisco Peninsula Review as well as many others. Her screenplays include Castro Confidential and three episodes of The Powerhouse Kids.

A graduate of the University of California at Berkeley, Tory Hartmann has been a political consultant, a graphic artist, real estate broker, and business executive. Since the sale of her business, American Precision Gear, in 2007, she has been writing full time.

Current Projects:

Virgin on Ice, a novel, features Agnes Anne O’Hara, who thinks she’s the oldest virgin in San Francisco. Tory is seeking representation for this completed work. read more...

Mariachi Always Make Me Cry, a sequel to Virgin on Ice. Three O’Hara sisters try to find the Fountain of Youth in the fictional Central American country of Bellador. This novel is a work in progress.