AUTHOR'S BIO

Dyan Dubois trained as a visual artist. She paints with words. Her love of travel and respect for world cultures shows in the literary geography she creates for her characters. Combining fantasy with factual history, malleable time, and ancient mythological whispers, Dyan creates mysterious plots woven into fictional tapestry. Travels in India, her husband’s homeland, provided ample inspiration as did Nepal, Kashmir, and Bhutan.

 

Dyan graduated from UC Berkeley, hitchhiked through Europe and settled in Kenya before returning to get her MA in Art from CSU Sacramento. As a Fulbright Scholar, she lived in Mauritius, later presented a paper at an Oxford University England symposium, and was a college professor of visual arts in California. In 2014, after having written clandestinely for fourteen years, and with two adult daughters, she retired and applied herself to writing.

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Her love of the Pacific Northwest inspired her novel, WolfShe, the story of an indigenous girl’s survival after a tsunami and her later fight to save her people from a foreign invader.

 

Dyan lives in the Sierra Mountains of California with coyotes (and bears who occasionally break in) where she communes with nature, writes, paints, hikes and swims.