Born in Atlanta, urban fantasy author Eli Rainwater was taught how to read as soon as she started talking. And she loved to read! She read everything she could get her hands on, and it wasn’t long before she wrote short stories in school that won awards in the local papers. She was the most obsessed with fantasy and vividly remembers how much trouble she was in after she tried to take out the back of her mother’s antique wardrobe while looking for Narnia.
Eli, like many people, let her dreams of becoming a writer fade through adulthood. Then when she faced post-COVID burnout at work after being in crisis mode for the better part of two years, her bosses sent her on a ten day vacation to the mountains. She read in a yurt pretty much the entire time, drove the three hours home with a story brewing furiously in her head, and six months later had her first novel, an IndieBRAGG honoree, in the hands of her editors.
Urban fantasy will always be her first love. The fourth book in her inaugural witchy book series, The Witch’s Bar Chronicles comes out in late fall 2026. The first book in her shifter series and a standalone novel are slated for a 2027 release.
Eli gets to travel to conventions and events where people are nice enough to let her talk about her books and the worlds she created for hours on end. She looks forward to what the future will bring and the doors her writing will open. See where she’ll be, get in touch, and check out her books!
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