As a child, Rachel Hartman played cello and lip-synched Mozart operas
with her sisters. The famous Renaissance song "Mille Regretz" first
moved Rachel to write a fantasy novel rooted in music, but her
inspiration didn't end there. She wrote Seraphina while listening to medieval Italian polyphony, Breton bagpipe-rock, prog metal, Latin American baroque, and Irish sean nós.
Rachel Hartman lives with her family in Vancouver BC.
