About Marla Himeda
Marla Himeda is an award-winning author and lifelong musician and composer who has taught piano and clarinet for over half a century in her own studio. She teaches theory and composition courses, coaches ensemble groups, and is a prolific arranger of chamber music for winds. She has performed in the Seattle Opera House, the Seattle Art Museum, and many concert venues in Hawaii, where she has lived for the past fifty years near Mount Olomana, whose twin peaks sparked the birth of Bardic Mountain. Accolades for her series include the 2024 Readers’ Favorite Gold Medal Winner in Fiction Audiobooks, the IP Awards Outstanding Audiobook Winner, and the 2023 IAN Fantasy Book of the Year Winner.
The Bardic Isles Series is a merging of her two passions—music and writing—and portrays a world that she unabashedly admits loving to escape to. The Bardic Isles Series began 35 years ago as a bedtime story she told to her four children. It is now an epic fantasy series featuring music as the sole magical element, and the unique audiobooks include the music of the Bardic Isles, all of which was composed by the author.
