Paula Downing King lived in Pinetop, Arizona, where she worked as a managing attorney of five Legal Aid offices and was also the Public Defender for the White Mountain Apache Tribe. She sold her first two novels, Mad Roy's Light and Rinn's Star, in 1989. In her spare time she enjoyed reading, cross-stitch and playing guitar.

She published science fiction novels in the 1990s as Paula King (Mad Roy's Light), Paula E. Downing, P. K. McAllister (Orion's Dagger) and Paula Downing King, and a fantasy trilogy in the early 2000s as Diana Marcellas.

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