Ember Penrose – The Elves of Nine Ashes

About Ember Penrose

Ember Penrose grew up in a small town in New England — the kind of place where the grocery store doubled as the gossip exchange and everyone knew which neighbor kept the best garden. She spent her childhood reading under a particular oak tree she has never stopped thinking about, working her way through every fantasy novel the local library owned and several it probably shouldn’t have lent to a ten-year-old.

She studied literature in college with the vague intention of doing something sensible with it, spent a decade doing something sensible with it, and eventually decided that sensible was overrated. She began writing the stories she actually wanted to read — slow ones, quiet ones, stories where nobody was chosen and nothing needed saving and the magic lived in ordinary kindness between neighbors.

Nine Ashes, the elven village at the heart of her books, is the town she has always been trying to find. She lives with one elderly cat named Sorrel, a deeply unreasonable herb garden, and more unread books than she will ever honestly admit to.