Elizabeth Kerner

Elizabeth Kerner is an American bestselling fantasy fiction author known for “The Tale of Lanen Kaelar” series. Kerner was born in Florida in 1958 and had a Navy father who moved the family around a lot. The family lived in Pennsylvania and Rhode Island until she was seven before they moved to the south. Elizabeth found the south depressing with its lack of seasons, autumn leaves and snow. She has since then lived in Forest Grove in Oregon, New Orleans, Hilo in Hawaii, East Sussex and Edinburgh. She went to the University of St. Andrews in 1976 from where she graduated with a master’s in Literature and English in 1981. After she finished her college studies she worked as an apprentice to a variety of folks in Hilo such as an artwork and furniture restorer, a goldsmith, and a bookbinder. However, while she has lived in a variety of interesting places, she so loved Edinburgh that she moved back in 1995.