Stella moved from the United States to a small town in Germany when she was seven years old. She spent the next eleven years waiting to leave again, only to find that once she had, there was no place quite like it.

She earned a B.A. in anthropology and English language and literature in the USA before returning to Göttingen for an M.Ed in German and history, studying at the same university she would go on to set her early modern murders. Today, she teaches by day and writes fantastical historical mysteries by night.

Image created by Tuisku Hiltunen.