A.C.E. Bauer has been telling and writing stories since childhood. She took a short break to write dreadful poetry, and then a longer one while she worked as an attorney, writing legal briefs and telling stories about her clients. She has returned to fiction, and now writes children's books and short stories for all ages. No Castles Here, a finalist for the 2002 Tassy Walden Award: New Voices in Children's Literature, is her first middle-grade novel.

Born and raised in Montreal, she spends most of the year in New England and much of the summer on a lake in Quebec. She lives with her husband, two children, and their dog Speedy.