VL Stuart is a journalist and author living in Costa Rica with her husband. She is a long-time reader of science fiction, historical mysteries, and epic fantasy. As a teen, she cut her teeth on Heinlein and Tolkien, then found the delightful worlds of McCaffrey. Her first genres were poetry and essays and she won awards in both. . . As for her writing process, she is a pantser - "May all the gods bless grammarly.com."

At present, she lives between two volcanoes: "But no worries, only one of them is active."