Brenna Lyons wears many hats, sometimes all on the same day: president of EPIC, author of more than 70 published works, special needs teacher, wife, mother... She's a member in good standing of ERWA, TELL, MWW, IWOFA, WPM, RWU, and Broad Universe. In her first six years published in novel-length, she's finaled for 7 EPPIES (in six different categories), 3 PEARLS (including one Honorable Mention, second to NY Times Bestseller Angela Knight), two CAPAs and a Dream Realm Award. She's also taken Spinetingler's Book of the Year for 2007. Brenna writes milieu-heavy dark fiction (in 19 established worlds plus stand-alones), poetry, articles and essays. She teaches classes in everything from POV studies to advanced editing, networking to marketing.