Linda Collison

Linda Collison is the award-winning author of novels, short stories and creative nonfiction.

She has enjoyed a composite career as a registered nurse, a professional skydiving instructor, a volunteer firefighter, parent, and freelance writer. After nursing school Linda studied history at Metropolitan State University. Together, with her husband Bob Russell, she has sailed thousands of miles aboard Topaz, their 36-foot sloop, whose home port is Hawaii. They also served three weeks as crew aboard Endeavour, a replica of Captain James Cook's 18th-century ship -- and it was during the crossing from Vancouver to Hawaii that the idea for Star-Crossed was born.

Published by Knopf, Star-Crossed was chosen by the New York Public Library to be among the Books for the Teen Age -- 2007 and inspired the Patricia MacPherson Nautical Adventure Series. Collison also writes coming-of-age fiction and short dystopian fantasy pulp fiction as L.S. Collison.

Linda loves to travel, by land or by sea. Fast cars and slow boats are her favorites.