I’m A.L. Knorr, YA Urban Fantasy Author. Why young adult? It’s always been my favourite genre – I still like to read YA myself.

A.L. stands for Abby-Lynn, but I thought it was a bit long to slap on a book cover, so I shortened it to A.L. Unfortunately, it sort of makes it sound like I’m a dude. So, now that you’ve visited this page, you know I’m not a dude. Glad we cleared that up!

The characters that come to me most often are young women… they’re fun to write because they’re complicated and sometimes they do weird stuff. I should know, I was a young woman once.

Why write? I can’t not write. I just don’t feel right when I don’t write. I have more fun inside my head than I do in the real world. I believe that life is storytelling. We learn through storytelling. Whether it’s on stage, screen, page, or just a chat over a coffee with a friend – we learn through the stories we consume and the stories we share. My head has always been full of them and when there are a lot of characters bumping elbows in your brain, well, the only remedy is to get them down on paper and into someone else’s head.

I’m Canadian, but I also live in Italy, which is quite inspiring. When I’m not writing or plotting my next story, I love to mountain bike, hike, do yoga, read, and visit the historic sites of Italy and abroad. I also frequently butcher the beautiful Italian language.

I’ve harboured the dream of writing books for as long as I can remember, and I have always written. When I was young, I would read until late into the night. I even stuffed a towel under the crack in my door to hide the light so my parents wouldn’t know that I wasn’t sleeping (I’m sure they knew anyway… they know everything). Books were (and still are) my favourite escape.