Elizabeth E. Wein is the author of The Winter Prince, and has a PhD in Folklore from the University of Pennsylvania. Her short stories have appeared in Writers of the Future Vol. IX and in a young adult collection titled Not the Only One, with another story forthcoming in The Horns of Elfland. During her years as a graduate student in Philadelphia, Elizabeth learned to ring churchbells in the English style called "change ringing," and can boast of having performed in every ringable bell tower in Oxford (there are nineteen)....

Elizabeth and her husband, Tim Gatland, live in Marlow, England, "between-Maidenhead-and-Henley-on-the-Thames."

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