Kate Elliott

As a child in rural Oregon, Kate Elliott made up stories because she longed to escape to a world of lurid adventure fiction. She now writes fantasy, steampunk, and science fiction, all with a romantic edge. It should therefore come as no surprise that she met her future husband in a sword fight. When he gave up police work to study archaeology, they and their three children fell into an entirely new set of adventures in dusty Mexican ruins and mouthwatering European pastry shops. Eventually her spouse’s work forced them to move to Hawaii, where she took up outrigger canoe paddling and most recently competed in Na Wahine O Ke Kai, the women’s world championship of long-distance outrigger paddling. With the three children out of the house (two in college and one in the Navy), she makes the miniature schnauzer do all the chores.