Luck in the Shadows (Nightrunner, Vol. 1)
Lynn Flewelling grew up in Presque Isle, Maine.  Since receiving a degree in English from the University of Maine in 1981, she has studied veternary medicine at Oregon State, classical Greek at Georgetown University, and worked as a personnel generalist, landlord, teacher, necropsy technician, advertising copywriter, and freelance journalist, more or less in that order.  She currently lives in western New York.