Kirsten West is an author of adventure, fantasy, science fiction, and psychological fiction for adults and youth. She tells stories of triumph over evil where the magic is never spoken aloud, but lies beneath to peek out now and again when it is truly needed.

Kirsten is getting on in age and has a rather short attention span which led her through varied and sundry careers including but sadly not limited to a scientist, a biophysicist, a groveling graduate student, a market research analyst, a scuba instructor and divemaster, a volunteer aquarium docent, and a serial start-up sales and marketing flunky. She lives with her patient husband and devoted pup in a 110 year old California bungalow neatly held down through the occasional earthquake by thousands upon thousands of books. Besides the obligatory hobby of fixing bits of falling down house, Kirsten spends her leisure time taming her wild, native garden, completing projects as a marketing consultant, walking her pup, and slowly knitting blankets and scarves for her children.