Regina M. Hansen

Regina M Hansen is the author of the novel The Coming Storm (Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2021). She was born in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada, where she lived as a small child before moving to Montreal, Quebec, and finally Massachusetts. She has always divided her time among these special places and continues to call them all home. She studied English and Anthropology at Tufts University and received her PhD in English from Boston College. She teaches at Boston University and has written books and articles for adults and children on many subjects, including horror movies, Halloween, elves, fairy tales, vampires, angels, King Arthur, religion, witchcraft, folklore and myth, and has even co-edited a book on the television series Supernatural. From a family of artists and performers, she loves to read, sing, crochet and sew, and to walk the woods and beaches of New England and Eastern Canada. She lives in Somerville, Massachusetts with her husband, three children and many pets.