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W.D. Seitz (Willow D. Seitz) is an Amazon bestselling fantasy and science fiction author based in Wolfville, Nova Scotia. She enjoys writing whimsical stories for children and young adults with complex world-building and strong themes. Willow is now pursuing a degree in English and Classics at Acadia University. When she’s not writing, she’s teaching and training in martial arts. The Beauty of Dawn is her first book.

Long version

Willow was born in 2001 in Slocan, British Columbia, Canada. Willow knew she wanted to be an author as early as eight years old and made a number of picture books, including a comic about her superhero pet hamster called “Super Hammy.” As a child, she and her grandfather would take turns reading stories to each other on his couch in his home. She was heavily influenced by works of epic fantasy, as her grandfather would often read her books from The Wheel of Time, the Lord of the Rings, and the Dark Tower series. On her own time, she read books such as A Wrinkle in Time, the Bones comics, the Magic Treehouse, and Goosebumps.

Due to the 2008 housing crisis, Willow’s family was forced to sell their home and move across the country to a military base in Greenwood, Nova Scotia. Years later, her grandfather passed away from a health condition related to prolonged alcohol consumption. In 2023, Willow published her first novel “The Beauty of Dawn.” She dedicates all her books to her grandfather in honour of his memory.

Willow graduated from community college in 2022 with a diploma in Business Administration. She is currently pursuing an undergraduate degree at Acadia University in English and Classics. In 2023, she founded Indieverse in an effort to eliminate the self-publishing stigma and connect readers to quality independently published works of sci-fi/fantasy.

You may contact Willow by sending her an e-mail: hello@willowseitz.com.