Dyan Dubois is a Fulbright Scholar, a retired professor, a visual artist, and a fiction writer. She received a bachelor of fine arts from UC Berkeley and a master of arts from California State University Sacramento. Her first published story, "Closed Eyes Smiling," was inspired by the Tibetan Refugee Center in India. Her novel, Rajasthan Suite Memory, takes place in Rajasthan, India, in the present and the 1700s. Dyan lives in the Sierra Mountains of California.