Christina E PilzChristina E. Pilz was born in Texas in 1962. After living on a variety of air force bases, in 1972 her father retired and the family moved to Boulder, Colorado. There amidst the clear, dry air of the high plains, as the moss started to grow beneath hr feet, her love for historical fiction began with a classroom reading of Little House on the Prairie. She attended a variety of community colleges and state universities, and finally found her career in technical writing, which, between layoffs, she has been doing for 18 years. During that time, her love for historical fiction and old fashioned objects, ideas, and eras never waned. In addition to writing, her interests include road trips around the U.S. and frequent flights to England, where she eats fish and chips, drinks hard cider, and listens to the voices in the pub around her. She also loves coffee shops, mountain sunsets, prairie storms, and the smell of lavender. She is a staunch supporter of the Oxford comma. Read More Read Less