Darcie Chan was born in Wisconsin and grew up in the small towns of Brandon, Wisconsin, La Junta and Cheraw, Colorado, and Paoli, Indiana. She has two younger sisters.Thanks to loving and supportive parents who are both educators, she learned to read and write at an early age. As a child, she fell in love with books and became quite obsessed with Walter Farley's Black Stallion series of books, among many others. Her passion for reading and writing continued through college at Indiana University, Bloomington, and law school at the University of Baltimore. Currently, she is an attorney with the Office of the Legislative Counsel, United States Senate, where she drafts federal environmental,… climate change, and natural resource legislation.In her spare time, Darcie enjoys spending time with her family, reading, writing fiction, gardening, playing piano, and cooking. She lives in northern Westchester County, New York, with her husband (whom she first met as a senior in high school at a national science competition), their son, and two cats.The Mill River Recluse is her first novel.