Elizabeth Vail, Senior Reviewer, was born in Alberta, Canada, the eldest of three children. She took to reading at an early age and has been doing it ever since, resulting in a voracious hunger for the written word as well as a violent aversion to fresh air and sunlight. She is currently studying for her English Major at University, works as a critic and entertainment journalist for two other publications, and mourns the fact that her family has forbidden the presence of any cats in the house, a situation almost unheard of for a writer. Her favourite authors are Tad Williams, Robin Hobb, Kate Elliot, and George R. R. Martin. Her future plans are to become a fantasy novelist and film critic, and adopt as many cats as the law will allow. E-mail will reach Elizabeth here.