Carol's Web Site at SFF.Net

Though Carol Berg went off to Rice University to major in mathematics, she took every English course that listed novels on the syllabus-just so she would have time to keep reading. It was her college roommate that loaned her the copy of Tolkien that gave her a love for epic fantasy that changed her life...eventually. Three sons, another degree - this time in computer science from the University of Colorado - and a software engineering career kept her busy, but somewhere along the way, a friend hoodwinked her into exchanging letters "in character". The game got out of control. Carol now has eight novels published and she has put the engineering career on hold to become a full-time writer. She lives in Colorado at the foot of the Rocky Mountains.

Her books have won the 2005 Geffen Award for Best Translated Fantasy (Transformation) and the 2004 Colorado Book Award (Song of the Beast), and have been shortlisted for the Romantic Times Reviewer’s Choice Award for the best epic fantasy of 2002 (Restoration) and for the Compton Crook Award for the best first fantasy of 2000 (Transformation). One reviewer has called the Books of the Rai-kirah: Transformation, Revelation, and Restoration, "one of the first great epic fantasies of the 21st century". Her books have been translated into Russian, German, Czech, Polish, and Hebrew, and regularly make the Locus bestseller list.