Kindrie GroveKindrie Grove is an artist as well as an author. She graduated with distinction from the Alberta University of Art and has enjoyed great success as a multidisciplinary artist, operating her own studio near Penticton, British Columbia, where she workswith fantasy and animal subjects through the mediums of cast bronze, oil painting, and traditional drawing.

Kindrie has written and illustrated A Field Guide to Horses (Lone Pine Publishing, 2009) and illustrated two children's books. An enthusiastic, lifelong reader of fantasy fiction, she trained for seven years in mixed martial arts, and having grown up with horses, enjoys a thorough understanding of riding and equine husbandry, areas of expertise that figure prominently in The Messenger From Myris Dar and help make the world of this novel startlingly realistic and remarkably vivid.

Kindrie lives near Penticton with her husband and son. Her studio manager is a handsome tuxedo cat named Oreo, who arrived as an uninvited guest and became an undisputed member of the family. Read More Read Less