My Immortal's author

Little is known definitively about My Immortal's author outside of the persona they constructed in Tara Gilesbie. They were almost certainly a follower of the LiveJournal communities deleterius and pottersues, and there are decent indications she was interested in alternative music as well as popular television shows and movies like Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Beyond that it becomes more speculative. Members of the deleterius and pottersues communities ranged considerably in age. Most were in their early- to mid-20s, but several were considerably younger and others much older. The fanfic communities the author participated in usually had a notably female-skewed ratio of posters, with studies of fanfiction.net indicating something like 80% of posters on ffnet are women or girls. Accordingly, we might reasonably guess the author was most likely a female 13–29 year old, but of course there's a not insubstantial chance one or both of these guesses turn out to be false.