Tieste (pronounced Tyeast) Williams is a native of Virginia and has had dreams of becoming an author since childhood. When not writing, she can be found helping animals and attending classes for her degree in Creative Writing. 

Her first published novel, Wolf Girl, is based off a short story that Tieste wrote when she was only fourteen. She received the idea late one night after watching a rerun of the Disney show, The Suite Life of Zack and Cody, in which one of the characters exclaimed that she lived with wolves. Though Tieste has written many other stories since then, Rachel has never left her, and she knew that she had to share her story with the world.