MELISSA LYNN HEROLD is artistically talented, scientifically minded, and magically fascinated, things that manifest in both her fiction and her nonfiction. An herbal alchemist, Melissa owns and runs NightBlooming, where she blends up herbs and oils that grow real-life fairytale hair, and has published two nonfiction books, Rehabilitating Damaged Hair Naturally and Coloring Hair Naturally with Henna & Other Herbs.
Her debut fantasy series, the Iyarri Chronicles, began with Heaven's Silhouette, continued with Mourning's Dawn, and comes to a spellbinding conclusion with Ascension's Reckoning. She lives with her husband in a sweeping river valley, along with their mutinous cats and garden dotted with honeybees.
