Elizabeth Kary has had a lifelong love affair with writing. She published her first poem in fourth grade, and finished an historical novel at fifteen. She wrote through college and graduate school, wrote through twelve years of teaching art in New York State, and nine years of supervising children's classes at the St. Louis Art Museum.

In 1986 Berkley Books released her first historical novel, LOVE, HONOR AND BETRAY, which went on to win the Waldenbook Award for "Best-selling Romance by a New Author".

Kary delights in telling rich, romantic stories set on the American frontier, for which she garnered a Romantic Times Career Achievement Award. Her most recently published book, MOON IN THE WATER, was a finalist for the Romance Writers of America 2005 Rita Award and was named to the honors list for the prestigious Willa Literary Award.

Her first contemporary novel, A SIMPLE GIFT, written under the name Karyn Witmer, is a Literary Guild Featured Alternate and will be in bookstores in September 2006.

When deadlines permit, Kary teaches writing classes at her local Community College. She divides her time between homes in St. Louis, Missouri and Monterey, California.