Cristel Orrand

Cristel Orrand writes literary and historical fiction, poetry and nonfiction and is the author of the award-nominated novel The Amalgamist, Khayal, and Heartwood.

Cristel grew up in a military family, living in the Middle East and France and other exotic locations, such as Fort Riley, Kansas and the wilds of Washington, DC, before happily returning to Raleigh, NC with her husband, twins and dogs, to maintain a steady diet of Southern sunshine and paradox.

She's spent the last fifteen years working in federal and commercial IT consulting, where her degrees in French and Political Science have been of little use, but huge importance to her anyway. She's a mom, a project manager, a bibliophile, a writer, a history buff, a cook, a critic, a gardener, a storyteller, a cancer survivor, a caretaker, a scavenger and a pugilist, of a sort.

Find me online at https://www.facebook.com/AmalgamistBooks