My name is Kara Aisenbrey (which is pronounced nothing at all like how it’s spelled: I-zen-bri). I grew up moving around quite a lot, and by the time I was an adult, I’d lived in the US, Europe, and West Africa. Books were my unchanging companions in an ever-changing world and my imagination’s doorways to other exciting destinations. I’ve always particularly loved anything with a spark of magic to it, whether that’s traveling at warp speed in Star Trek or mysterious great-great-grandmothers and glowing threads in The Princess and the Goblin, which I can still remember my mother reading to me at bedtime. I decided the best job in the world would be to help make that magic happen.

I currently live in Seattle with my best friends and our mischievous cats (and the ghost the cats seem to think lives on our ceiling). When I’m not reading and studying how to read even better, I love to travel and make French food and grow roses.

Some of my favorite books are A Darker Shade of Magic, Anne of Green Gables, Ready Player One, Maud Martha, Strange the Dreamer, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, and The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making.