Marlyn Horsdal is a publisher, editor and writer. In 1984, she co-founded Horsdal & Schubart Publishing, and ran the company until it sold in 2002. She was born in Ottawa and educated at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, and the London School of Economics, in London, england. She taught in Ghana as a CUSO volunteer and started a non-profit called Educating Girls in Africa, a program that provides scholarships to girls at St. Louis Secondary School in Kumasi, Ghana. All royalties from the sale of Sweetness from Ashes will be donated to this cause. Marlyn lives on Salt Spring Island, BC. Sweetness from Ashes is her first novel.