Linda Capus Riley is the author of three non-fiction children's books, two of which focus on aquatic subjects. She is a certified SCUBA diver who has swum with sharks, giant rays, and sea lions, come face-to-face with an octopus, and would rather be underwater than most other places. She has a Master of Arts in Communications from Temple University, and is an award-winning journalist, who worked for 10 years at daily newspapers in the Philadelphia metropolitan area.
Currently she is working on her first novel, which is set in the first century in Scotland and 20th century in Scotland and the United States.