Diane Rios lives in Portland Oregon with her husband Greg and rescued dog Faye. Her passion for the forests and coastline of Oregon stem from her own childhood spent living in the woods with her artisan parents. Real-life Oregon places mix with fantasy in her debut novel Bridge of the Gods, Book One in the Silver Mountain Series. Diane has been published as illustrator for Gayle Forman's 2006 travel diary "You Can't Get There From Here" on Rodale Press, and wrote and illustrated the whimsical picture book about a dog who wants to be a photographer in Dizzy's Dream, available on blurb.com. A long-time writer and blogger, Diane worked for three years at Powell's Books in downtown Portland where she "greatly increased her personal collection of middle readers", and was inspired to write this series.