Carolyn Charron is a speculative fiction writer who has always wanted to be a pirate or a wizard, preferably with a dragon companion. Her short stories have appeared in Renaissance Press' Nothing Without Us anthology of disabled writers which was nominated for a 2020 Prix Aurora award and in three of Flame Tree Publishing's Gothic Fantasy anthologies among others. On the editor's side of her desk, she read slush for Apex and Lightspeed Magazines and has been a juror for Speculative Literature Foundation grants.

She was fortunate to receive a Recommender Grant from Ontario Arts Council (OAC) to write this novel, the prequel to a multigenerational series of stories following a family of blacksmiths and their magical power over metals. The next novel has also received both OAC Recommender grants and Toronto Arts Council grant.

She lives in Toronto with her husband and two children and is still hoping for a pet dragon one day.