Carina Bartsch was born in 1985 in Erlangen, Germany, in the Franconia region of Bavaria. Her love of writing came late, but intensely. After searching since childhood for something she would really enjoy doing, she finally wrote her first short story at age twenty. Instantly, she realized: this is it. Four years later, after she had won several writing competitions, Bartsch published her debut novel, Cherry Red Summer. Turquoise Green Winter is the second installment of the story she began in that novel. For more on Bartsch, please visit www.carinabartsch.de.