Shelley Adina

Shelley Adina is the author of more than twenty steampunk and contemporary romance novels, including the Magnificent Devices series. Under the pen name Adina Senft she writes Amish women's fiction and as Charlotte Henry she writes classic Regency romance. She holds an MFA in writing popular fiction, and is at work on a PhD in creative writing at Lancaster University in the UK. She won the Romance Writers of America RITA Award for Best Inspirational Novel in 2005, was a finalist in 2006, and in 2009 was a Christy Award finalist. When she's not writing, Shelley is usually quilting, sewing historical costumes, or enjoying the garden with her flock of rescued chickens.