Berlin Gunning is the youngest of her strict grammarian father's seven daughters. Like him, she has a Master of Arts degree in English, with emphases in writing, editing, and publishing, with which she graduated from Oregon's Portland State University in 2009. When she isn't writing, herself, she is tutoring people of many ages in English and history She will release A Pair Of Light Eyes Must Always Be Watching, the second installment of The Dar Ievna Series in October of 2015. Miss Gunning lives, writes, indulges her twin passions for classical music and horses, and is happily single in the City Of Roses, Portland, Oregon. She hates houseflies and dangling prepositions. Follow her blog at Goodreads.com