Adina Senft

Adina Senft is the USA Today bestselling author of Amish women's fiction and a pseudonym of Shelley Adina Senft, who has published approximately 60 novels across multiple genres including steampunk, cozy fantasy mystery, and Regency romance[1][3]. She holds an M.F.A. in Writing Popular Fiction from Seton Hill University, where she teaches as adjunct faculty, and is completing a PhD in Creative Writing from Lancaster University in the UK[1][2]. Senft grew up in a plain house church in Canada and returns to Vancouver Island annually, drawing on her background to write faith-based fiction about Amish, Mennonite, and other plain communities[2][4].