Award-winning author and illustrator Diane Rios lives and writes in Portland, Oregon. Her debut novel, Bridge of the Gods, won the 2017 silver Moonbeam Children's Book Award for Pre-Teen Fantasy, was a finalist for the USA Best Book Award in Children's Fiction, and was a finalist for a 2017 Oregon Book Award for Children's Literature. A long-time Oregon artist and musician, Rios wrote and illustrated the picture book Dizzy's Dream. Rios spent three years working at the world's largest independent bookstore, Powell's Books in Portland, where she greatly increased her own children's book collection and was inspired to write the Silver Mountain Series.
