Emily C. A. Snyder has been inventing stories since she was old enough to babble, and writing them down since she was old enough to dictate. A prolific writer, Snyder is the author of Nachtsturm Castle: A Gothic Austen Novel available from Girlebooks.com, as well as the author of The Twelve Kingdoms series from Arx Publishing, LLC which includes Niamh and the Hermit and Charming the Moon.

In addition to novels, Snyder enjoys writing plays (over 40 and counting) four of which are currently available from Playscripts, Inc.: in her An Evening's Diversion series of Comedy of Manners, Wallace's Will and The French Butler, as well as the aptly named Math for Actors, and the first in her new Grimms Aghast series, Charming Princes.

Her work has been performed throughout the United States, and internationally as well - from Dublin, Ireland to Christchurch, New Zealand. Her original five-act iambic pentameter play, "Cupid and Psyche" debuted in Boston in 2009, and was a semi-finalist in the Princess Grace Awards that same year.

Snyder holds an MA in Theatre Education from Emerson College, Boston, MA and a BA in Literature and Drama from Franciscan University of Steubenville, OH. She studied screenwriting in Hollywood, CA with the ActOne program, and studied verse drama with the Theatre-in-England/Shakespeare School in London and Stratford-upon-Avon, England, under the direction of Vivien Heilbron and Bernard Lloyd. In 2006, she founded Gaudete Academy, a summer Shakespeare program in Massachusetts for adolescents and young adults. She is also the owner of The Christian Guide to Fantasy.

When not writing, Emily can most often be seen teaching or directing - and even occasionally acting! And when not doing that, chances are she's driving aimlessly in her car, singing at the top of her lungs.