D.T. Rylie

D. T. Rylie is a retired veterinarian. Born and raised in Alaska, she graduated from the University of Alaska. After a stint on Kodiak Island, the author headed south for veterinary school in Washington State. Following graduation, she trekked steadily northward via Idaho and Montana, eventually living off-grid in rural British Columbia.

As a youth, D.T. Rylie spent her summers as a horse wrangler and worked her way through college as a zookeeper. She taught high school biology and English and worked in the mental health field prior to enrolling in veterinary school. During vet school, she learned to fly small planes and worked with assistance dogs and therapy horses. She has been a dog trainer, a sled dog musher and a raptor rehabilitator. She was a volunteer veterinarian after Hurricane Katrina and performed surgeries at free clinics in Baja, Mexico. She has served as a trail vet on sled dog races in several US states and in Canada.

D.T. Rylie began writing her first novel, The Canis Project, in the early 2000's. She completed the novel in 2019. No sense rushing these things. . .