Award-Winning author, actress and playwright Leanna Renee Hieber grew up in rural Ohio where her childhood memories are full of inventing elaborate ghost stories. A scholarship to London and a focus in the Victorian Era set the stage for her Strangely Beautiful series of Gothic Victorian Fantasy novels with Dorchester publishing. Her novella Dark Nest won the 2009 Prism Award for excellence in Futuristic, Fantasy and Paranormal Romance. A member of Actors Equity Association (AEA), the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA) and the Screen Actors Guild (SAG), Leanna works often in television. When not writing or on set, she loves a good Goth club and adventuring about her adopted hometown of New York City, where she resides with her real-life hero and her beloved rescued lab rabbit Persebunny, Queen of the Undereverything.

Leanna is a member of the Romance Writers of America (RWA) the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) and the Horror Writers Association (HWA). She is very proud to be a co-founder of Lady Jane's Salon Reading Series. Visit her at www.leannareneehieber.com