Sunshine Somerville lives in Grand Rapids, Michigan. She self-published her first book in college in 2004 and has been evolving The Kota Series since she was nine, basing the story on childhood fantasies derived from watching too much X-Men and Star Wars and reading too much Chronicles of Narnia and A Wrinkle in Time.

Besides writing, her creative outlets include painting and making feature-length, spoof movies such as “Love Not Really” and “I Knew What You Did Last Summer, Then I Forgot, But Now I Remember Again.” She also enjoys spending time outdoors on her family’s hunting preserve.

She would like to point out that, yes, this is her real name.