Crysta Coburn has a Bachelor of Arts in creative writing. She has been a bookseller, book buyer, library aide and clerk, and currently works for the Ann Arbor District Library. She also works as a staff writer and editor for the Crazy Wisdom Community Journal, is a freelance writer, editor, and published author. Originally from Southwest Michigan, she loves living in a book town and enjoys reading just about everything, but especially speculative fiction, historical fiction, the paranormal, and odd histories.