Since 1980 Lorina Stephens has worked as editor, freelance journalist for national and regional print media, authored six books both fiction and non-fiction, been a festival organizer, publicist, lectures on many topics from historical textiles and domestic technologies, to publishing and writing, teaches, and continues to work as a writer, artist, and publisher. She has had several short fiction pieces published in Canada’s acclaimed On Spec magazine and Marion Zimmer Bradley’s fantasy anthology Sword & Sorceress X. She lives with her husband of three plus decades, and two cats, in a historic stone house in Neustadt, Ontario.