Leanna Renee Hieber

Actress, playwright and author Leanna Renee Hieber is the award-winning, bestselling author of Gothic Victorian Fantasy novels for adults and teens. Her Strangely Beautiful saga, beginning with THE STRANGELY BEAUTIFUL TALE OF MISS PERCY PARKER, hit Barnes & Noble and Borders Bestseller lists and garnered numerous regional genre awards. This currently out-of-print series will reissue in revised editions from Tor/Forge in 2015 and is currently being adapted into a musical theatre production. Leanna's Magic Most Foul saga began with DARKER STILL, an American Bookseller's Association "Indie Next List" pick and a Scholastic Book Club "Highly Recommended" title. Her new Gaslamp Fantasy saga, THE ETERNA FILES, begins early 2015 from Tor/Forge. Her short fiction has appeared in numerous anthologies such as Queen Victoria's Book of Spells, Willful Impropriety, The Mammoth Book of Gaslamp Romance and featured on Tor.com. She is a 4 time Prism Award winner for excellence in the genre of Fantasy Romance. Her books have been selected for national book club editions and translated into many languages. A proud member of performer unions Actors Equity and SAG-AFTRA, she lives in New York City and works in film and television on shows like Boardwalk Empire and is a ghost tour guide for Boroughs of the Dead, NYC.