Sterling R. Walker

Author Sterling R. Walker has been writing since she was old enough to spell, filling notebooks and -- more recently - laptops, with her stories. She earned a BA in English from North Carolina State University, with an emphasis in Creative Writing. The Orphan Ship is her first published young adult science fiction novel. It's received good reviews and was awarded a 2012 silver medal from Children's Literary Classics.

Walker's exciting sequel to The Orphan Ship, The Lost Sheep, was published in October, 2013. The final book in the trilogy, The Last Orphan, was published in December, 2014. In February, 2016 she released The Orphan Ship Trilogy on Kindle, which combines all three books into one volume. She released book one in a new YA SF/paranormal romance series called Vesta Exiled in June, 2018, and book two, Vesta Divided, in October, 2019. The third book in the trilogy, Vesta's Survival, was released in February, 2021. She is currently working on book four for The Orphan Ship and a standalone post-apocalyptic book.

Sterling R. Walker lives in North Logan, Utah. Recently divorced, she lives with two of her six adult children. Her oldest son is married, and she has one grandson. Sterling is a Christian (Latter-day Saints), a substitute English teacher in the Cache County (Utah) high schools, likes to travel internationally, sews Harry Potter quilts when she's not writing, and is addicted to dark chocolate with sea salt. She launched a development editing business in fall, 2017, called Sterling Edits. Visit her blog at SterlingRWalker.blogspot.com and her website, http://sterlingrwalker.com/