About Eloise

Eloise Corvo grew up in suburban metro Detroit where she impatiently awaited trips to her family's "Up North" cabin near Traverse City, Michigan. It was here, on the shores of dozens of lakes and dense forests where she found her unbridled love of the natural world and cultivated a curiosity that still hasn't let up. She followed this curiosity to Michigan State University, where she received a Bachelors of Science in Zoology, specializing in Ecology, Evolution, Organismal, and Marine Biology. At MSU she founded the MSU SCUBA Club which immediately died after she graduated, and almost adopted a baby turtle from an eccentric herpetology professor. She then moved to Alabama for a Masters in Marine Biology where she studied the most amazing fish known to humans, the Mangrove Killifish. Seriously, look it up. Frustrated by a lack of application of her science led her to leave academia and turn towards environmental education and advocacy.

Corvo is now an environmental policy analyst by day, and mystery writer by night. She works on state and federal environmental law to help protect the landscapes she fell in love with as a young girl exploring Northern Michigan. Her work takes her all over the country, but her heart is still in Traverse City, where she now resides full time. Corvo’s fiction incorporates her love and deep understanding of the outdoors, featuring underrepresented Midwestern landscapes that she's still obsessed with to this day. She often writes about strong women who wrestle with going against societal expectations and who hate getting told what to do.

Life in Northern Michigan through Eloise’s (& Marty’s!) eyes