Adalind Monroe

Born in San Diego, California, and raised by actors, Adalind grew up playing in the shadow of the stage. Despite a genetic predisposition toward theatre, her passion for the written word has characterized her life, from the first recorded horror piece (“We were almost scared to death, but if we had been scared to death we would probably be dead.” – cir. 1990), to the thirteen year labor of love that is the epic high fantasy saga of Eleasia, writing is without a doubt her greatest love. Though she is contractually obligated to say that, in fact, her best friend is her greatest love, they both know the truth.

One of the few constants she can confidently claim in her life thus far (beyond far too many animals at any given time, and a loving and supportive family of crazy people), writing took a place of prominence only when she had to ask herself “What do I want to do with my life?” That constant that had so characterized her childhood, even more than being surrounded by actors, became the answer to any question you could ask her, especially when it makes no literal sense.

”Would you like fries with that?”

"No thank you; I’m a writer.”

Though fantasy is without a doubt her dominant genre, her roots in supernatural suspense and horror have never lost their place in her heart. After discovering she was fully capable of writing short stories (a feat she believed utterly impossible, and laughable if suggested), she found her thoughts returning to the kinds of stories that had so captured her imagination when she was a child. Preferring to eschew the trappings of modern horror, Ms. Monroe’s tales tend toward the sub-genres of “Weird Fiction” and “Psychological Horror” when not entirely drenched in High Fantasy. .

Adalind lives in beautiful Southern Oregon with four cats, two dogs, two other dogs, the betta king of Aquarium Sparta, a snail, and a lizard named Obi-Wan. The lizard is definitely a Jedi.