Raised in the wilds of Western Massachusetts, Via Luino is the author of over 25 published short stories and poems and has been a Pushcart Prize nominee. She holds an MFA in fiction writing from the University of New Hampshire and has worked as an English teacher overseas. She is now a youth services librarian by day and an avid reader and writer of all kinds of fantasy by night. She lives just north of Boston with her spouse and their two dogs, an elderly seeing-eye dog flunky and a spry young rescue.

All the Scattered Stars is her debut novel.