Damien Walters Grintalis was imprinted with a love of reading at a young age by her father. At the age of eleven, she saw the movie Alien and read Stephen King’s The Shining and her attraction to all things dark and scary turned into true love. Rumor has it she still peeks behind the shower curtain on occasion to make sure no monsters are lurking there.

She is an Active member of both the Horror Writers Association and the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, a staff writer with BooklifeNow, and an Associate Editor of the Hugo Award-winning speculative fiction magazine, Electric Velocipede.

She lives in Maryland with her husband, two former shelter cats, and two rescued pit bulls. Ink is her first novel.