Anne Elisabeth Stengl is the Christy Award-winning author of the fantasy series Tales of Goldstone Wood, published by Bethany House Publishers. USA Today called the series "epically driven high fantasy." Her books Heartless and Veiled Rose both won Christy Awards, and Starflower was nominated in 2013. Stengl is known for her use of third-person omniscient narrative and non-chronological series progression.

She studied illustration at Grace College and English literature at Campbell University. Stengl makes her home in Raleigh, North Carolina, where she lives with her husband, Rohan, a passel of cats, and one long-suffering dog. When she's not writing, she enjoys Shakespeare, opera, and tea, and studies piano, painting, and pastry baking. Besides the Tales of Goldstone Wood, her works include seven novels and two novellas, with more works expected in the coming years. Her novels Heartless, Veiled Rose, and Dragonwitch have each been honored with a Christy Award, and Starflower was voted winner of the 2013 Clive Staples Award.