Vera Nazarian is an award-winning artist and a writer with a penchant for moral fables and stories of intense wonder, true love, and intricacy. A member of Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, she is the author of the critically acclaimed novels Dreams of the Compass Rose and Lords of Rainbow, outrageous parodies, including Pride and Platypus: Mr. Darcy's Dreadful Secret, and the high-octane adventure YA/teen dystopian apocalyptic science fiction series The Atlantis Grail, which has been optioned for film and is in development as a major motion picture franchise or TV series. Vera lives in a small town in Vermont.