Seattleite Elise Stephens was graduated with a Creative Writing degree from the University of Washington where she was awarded the Eugene Van Buren Prize for Fiction, attended Orson Scott Card’s Literary Boot Camp in 2014, and won the Writers of the Future competition in 2018. Her short story “Untrained Luck” appears in Writers of the Future Vol 35. Her novels include: Forecast (2013, Booktrope, 2019, Dragon Moon Press), and Guardian of the Gold Breathers (2013, Booktrope, 2015, Dragon Moon Press). Through her fiction, Elise explores beauty within brokenness and finding healing after a devastating loss. She intends for her stories to offer light and strength for facing the darkness and disappointments of this world.
