Hartwell, Emily is a Pacific Northwest-based romance author and former GIS analyst who spent a decade in urban planning before turning to fiction full-time. A University of Washington MUP graduate, she has worked on waterfront resiliency studies, community park designs, and open-data mapping projects from Boston to Seattle. She grew up in Vermont, keeps a Lamy pen in every bag, and lives in Portland, Oregon, with her spouse and a rescue mutt named Lidar. When not writing, she bakes cardamom buns, volunteers with a neighborhood creek restoration group, and teaches night classes on open-source mapping tools.
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