Elaine Bergstrom has always had a love for exotic and historic locales, creepy houses, twisted characters and doomed romance--all of which grew out of her youthful habits of excessive reading of gothic novels and short stories by Lovecraft and Poe, and a near-compulsive attendance at her local theater's Saturday matinee double creature features.

Elaine is a graduate of the College of Journalism at Marquette University in Milwaukee, she has worked as a Journalism teacher for Milwaukee Area Technical College and a lecturer for Alverno Colleges's Great Lakes Writer's Workshop. She currently teaches an ongoing novel writer's workshop for Milwaukee's Redbird Studios and has taught a course in historical research for novel writers for the University of Wisconsin Outreach Program.