Elysia is the 2025 winner of The Daphne Du Maurier Award for Excellence in Mystery and Suspense, a 2026 Writer's Digest Winner in the Short Short Story Competition, and a dual 2025 finalist in Best Mystery for the 2025 Claymore award. Her short fiction appears in Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine and Black Cat Weekly. She is a member of The Author’s Guild, Mystery Writers of America, Sisters in Crime, International Thriller Writers and Short Mystery Fiction Society. Raised in the military life, she's been all over the map, but she lives and writes in Virginia.