About the Author

Marjorie Burns

Marjorie Burns was born and raised in Portland, Oregon the youngest of three—or four if you count the family dog. She taught high school for two years before returning to graduate school at the University of California, Berkeley, earning her Ph.D. with a dissertation on fantasy and children’s literature in nineteenth-century England. She is now retired from university teaching and lives at the base of a Cascade mountain, where woods and waterways and half-deserted roads are waiting to be explored. Her dogs are always along.