Please note: Author's real name is Mary Emrich. It was her choice that her first seven books where published under the pseudonym/pen name "Elysse Poetis." Award Winning Canadian author Elysse Poetis was born in Sibiu/Hermanstadt, Romania. Sibiu was known to be The City of Literature, theology, army experts, secret service, philosophers, etc. Elysse spent her childhood in North Transylvania in a German community near the city of Bistrita (where author Bram Stoker started his original notes for what was to become the greatest fiction in the English Literature). She graduated from teacher's colle...