Amber Le Rose was born the year Star Wars came out, and lived in a home where Star Trek: TNG and Quantum Leap were watched religiously. Her middle grade reading was the Xanth books — and Madeline L’Engle, and Orson Scott Card, and Tolken, and Lewis, and Asimov and Le Guinn.

Amber grew up near Seattle, Washington. She wrote stories, songs and poetry all through school, and after graduating high school a year early, she rushed off to Brigham Young University, thinking it might be fun to be a journalist. She quickly found that this was not the sort of fiction she enjoyed.

So, she returned to the northwest and got a job making snowboards, where she met her husband, Steve. Soon after their marriage, she discovered a new thing called the Internet. She started making Web sites for Microsoft and other Seattle-based companies.

After her three children were born, she returned to reading her favorite books and remembered how much she loved to write. She wrote how-to articles for Microsoft for another year, but eventually started writing fiction in earnest.

She now lives in a little town in the northwest corner of Washington, surrounded by her family, trees, and stories, stories, stories.