L.E. Sterling (Vollick) earned her M.A. in Creative Writing from Concordia University and a PhD in English Literature from McGill University. Her first novel, The Originals (DC Books, 2002), was an indie hit also published in French translation (Editions Triptyque, 2005) under her original pen name, L.E. Vollick. Her poetry, short stories, and a literary essay appear in several anthologies, including Desire, Doom & Vice (2005) and Population Me: Essays on David McGimpsey (2010). More recently she co-wrote the Sci-Fi web-series, Process: A Series of Events, slated for release in 2012. When she isn't working as a communications professional, Erin stays busy co-editing a collection of women's non-fiction dating stories, and writing her upcoming Urban Fantasy series, The Voodoo Wars as well as a Y/A novel involving fairies and trolls.

“I'm not exaggerating when I say that The Originals could be the Catcher in the Rye of our generation.” — Hour, Montreal, March 2002

“What sets The Originals apart from so many other novels about malcontent, clubbing youth – aside from the author's arresting prose – is the fact that Vollick has firmly rooted her novel in the political context of the 1980s and 1990s... In The Originals, character and context are indivisible, which makes the story simultaneously universal and deeply personal.” — Clelia Scala, Paper Plates, 2003