Please note: Author's real name is Mary Emrich. It was her choice that her first seven books where published under the pseudonym/pen name "Elysse Poetis." Award Winning Canadian author Elysse Poetis was born in Sibiu/Hermanstadt, Romania. Sibiu was known to be The City of Literature, theology, army experts, secret service, philosophers, etc. Elysse spent her childhood in North Transylvania in a German community near the city of Bistrita (where author Bram Stoker started his original notes for what was to become the greatest fiction in the English Literature). She graduated from teacher's college in the city of Arad just prior to her escape from behind the iron curtain to her friends (in then) West Germany. Canada rescued young and pregnant Elysse in 1981 from a UN refugee camp near Vienna, Austria. In Canada she studied business, marketing, publishing and computer networking, and worked as a designer and later art director for the Canadian publishing industry along some of the most creative communicators. Today, Elysse is a happy oma/grandmother to second generation tiny Canadians. She resides with her husband/publisher Klaus, in the famous Region of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.