Hannah D. Howell is a highly regarded and prolific romance writer.  Since Amber Flame, her first historical romance, was released in February 1988, she has published 25 novels and short stories, with more on the way.  Her writing has been repeatedly recognized for its excellence and has "made Waldenbooks Romance Bestseller list a time or two" as well as was nominated twice by Romantic Times for Best Medieval Romance (Promised Passion and Elfking's Lady).  She has also won Romantic Times' Best British Isles Historical Romance for Beauty and the Beast; and, in 1991-92 she received Romantic Times' Career Achievement Award for Historical Storyteller of the Year.

Hannah was born and raised in Massachusetts (the maternal side of her family has been there since the 1630's).  She has been married to her husband Stephen for 28 years, who she met in England while visiting relatives, and decided to import him.  They have two sons Samuel, 27, and Keir, 24.  She is addicted to crocheting, reads and plays piano, attempts to garden, and collects things like dolls, faerie and cat figurines, and music boxes.  She also seems to collect cats, as she now has four of them, Clousseau, Banshee, Spooky, and Oliver Cromwell.