Genevieve Iseult Eldredge used to keep her fantasies to herself, until they grew wings (and swords, spears, and other medieval weaponry) and broke free.  Now, she balances the romantic with the perilous—both in real life and in her writing.

In her real life, she dropped out of med school, began practicing the martial arts, married the girl of her dreams, and became an epic fantasy writer.  She has earned a BA in English Literature, an MFA in Writing Popular Fiction, a Black Belt in karate, and has been a panelist at Arisia, PhilCon, and was Guest of Awesome at 4Pi-Con.

In her writing, GIE has been known to torture her characters with all manner of romance and peril–from desire to unrequited love, to showdowns and epic battle sequences–including the dreaded incarnation of both: fightsex. She does not have a degree in the latter.

As Kierstin Cherry, she puts the romance back into necromancy with her erotic vampire stories from the following anthologies: Blood Surrender, Like Crimson Droplets and the Lambda-nominated Women of the Bite.