The hound and the falcon

Judith Tarr (born in Augusta, Maine) is an American author of Romance, Fantasy and Science Fiction. She received her B.A. in Latin and English from Mount Holyoke College in 1976, and has an M.A. in Classics from Cambridge University, and an M.A. and PhD in Medieval Studies from Yale University. She taught Latin at Wesleyan University from 1990–1993. She breeds Lipizzan horses at Dancing Horse Farm, her home in Vail, Arizona. Source: Wikipedia