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  <name><![CDATA[Elizabeth Engstrom]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[Elizabeth (Liz) Engstrom grew up in Park Ridge, Illinois (a Chicago suburb where she lived with her father) and Kaysville, Utah (north of Salt Lake City, where she lived with her mother). After graduating from high school in Illinois, she ventured west in a serious search for acceptable weather, eventually settling in Honolulu. She attended college and worked as an advertising copywriter. 

After eight years on Oahu, she moved to Maui, found a business partner and opened an advertising agency. One husband, two children and five years later, she sold the agency to her partner and had enough seed money to try her hand at full time fiction writing, her lifelong dream. With the help of her mentor, science fiction great Theodore Sturgeon, When Darkness Loves Us was published. 

Engstrom moved to Eugene, Oregon in 1986, where she lives with her husband Al Cratty, the legendary muskie fisherman, and their Duck Tolling Retriever, Jook. Liz holds a BA in English Literature and Writing from Marylhurst University and is currently pursuing a graduate degree in Applied Theology. A recluse at heart, she still emerges into public occasionally to speak at a writers conference, or to teach a class on various aspects of writing the novel, essay, article or short story.
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  <title><![CDATA[Lizzie Borden]]></title>
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  <published>1991</published>  
  
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        <book id="3533710">
  <title><![CDATA[The Northwoods Chronicles (Five Star Science Fiction and Fantasy Series)]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Elizabeth Engstrom]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[Lizard Wine]]></title>
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  <published>1995</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Black Ambrosia]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Elizabeth Engstrom]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[When Darkness Loves Us]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Elizabeth Engstrom]]></name>
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  <published>1985</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Imagination Fully Dilated, Volume II]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Elizabeth Engstrom]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[Alan M. Clark]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[Dead on Demand : The Best of Ghost Story Weekend]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Elizabeth Engstrom]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[Nightmare Flower]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Elizabeth Engstrom]]></name>
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  <published>1992</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Candyland]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Elizabeth Engstrom]]></name>
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  <published>2008</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Suspicions]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Elizabeth Engstrom]]></name>
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  <published>2002</published>  
  
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