Rachel Manija Brown is the author of the memoir All the Fishes Come Home to Roost: An American Misfit in India. She writes paranormal romance for adults under the pen names of Lia Silver and Zoe Chant. She has worked as a stage manager, a television writer, and a trauma therapist, and currently works as a life coach. Rachel lives in a little house in the big woods with two cats and six chickens.