A.C. Haury is a Philadelphia-based writer whose love of reading and writing was cultivated at a very young age. She began writing short stories and poems as a child, and now as an adult, she writes fiction pieces such as her mystery novels Shadows of Morrow and O'Mara and the Down Tree. Some of her greatest influences include Emily Dickinson, Edgar Allan Poe, and Jane Austen, but she also enjoys reading contemporary works by authors such as J.K. Rowling, Jennifer McMahon, and others. Haury lives in Philadelphia with her husband and sons.