Marcella (M. Lauryl) is Pacific Northwest born-and-raised. A retired RN, she left the city behind in 2022 and now lives on 120 acres in the mountains of NE Washington State, where she homesteads off-grid with her husband and one of their three adult sons. She loves spending time in nature and with their many farm animals: goats, rabbits, chickens, cats, and dogs. She focuses on living a simple life, doing things as they did in the "olden days" whenever possible. Her hobbies include gardening, sewing, foraging, food preservation, crafting, hiking, hunting, reading, and of course writing. She strives to incorporate her experiences as a former nurse as well as her real-life "survival skills" into her written works. The horror genre has been a favorite of Marcella's since she was a very young child.