Nancy Vogel's literary career began when, at the age of twelve, she
had a poem published in a newspaper and won an essay contest. From
then until the time she was married she wrote spasmodically; it wasn't
until her first child was born, making free time for writing out of the
question, that she began to write in earnest, producing fiction,
articles, humor, poetry, book reviews, light verse, cartoon gags,
newspaper columns, and everything else that varying kinds of word
combinations might be termed.
A Casteel by birth, she feels that one nice thing about having traded
that name for Vogel is that she is no longer vulnerable to "soap" gags.
She is a "native" Californian, born in Great Falls, Montana, from which
she was whisked when she was a baby.