Michelle Sagara lives in Toronto with her long-suffering husband and two sons. She is very allergic to cats, unlikemany authors, and her house is a zone of chaos. With bookshelves. Her first novel was published in 1991 (Into theDarklands), and she’s continued to write novels since then.

She writes as Michelle West (The Sun Sword, The House War series) and Michelle Sagara (The Chronicles of Elantra, TheWolves of Elantra). She also reviews for the venerable Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. She’s worked, in onecapacity or another, for Bakka-Phoenix books in Toronto, since 1986, because she’s also a bit of a bookstore geek.

Her favorite muppet is Oscar the Grouch.

You can find her online at her website (http://michellesagara.com), Twitter (msagara), and Facebook as MichelleSagara.