Amber Le Rose was born the year Star Wars first 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 south of Seattle, Washington. She wrote stories and poetry all through school, and after graduating high school a year early, she rushed off to Brigham Young University and thought it might be fun to be a journalist. How right she was: that journalism is close to fiction writing, except that you must hound people for their half-truths.

Disillusioned as an eighteen-year-old sophomore, she left college* and returned to the northwest. She got a job making snowboards, where she met her husband, Steve. Soon after their marriage, she discovered a new thing called the Internet, and she started making Web pages, eventually working for Microsoft and other Seattle-based companies.

After the birth of her three children, she returned to reading her favorite books and authors and remembered how much she loved to write. She wrote how-to articles for Microsoft for another year, but eventually started writing fiction on her own instead.

She now lives in a little town in the northwest corner of Washington, surrounded by her family, nine chickens, two gerbils, a very old dog, and stories, stories, stories.

*Her only regret is not pursuing storymaking at college…but then, she wouldn’t have met her husband, so she’s confident that all works out.