Delia C. Pitts

Delia C. Pitts spent eleven years as an officer in the US Foreign Service. Her work took her to Nigeria, Mauritania, Mexico, and other exotic locales. Pitts went on to spend twenty years as a university administrator. Pitts's first work was a pastiche of The Black Stallion she wrote in the second grade. Pitts has contributed to newspapers in her hometown of Chicago, Illinois, and has written over sixty fan-fiction stories under the pen name "blacktop." Pitts lives with her husband in central New Jersey. They have two grown sons.