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Laura Resnick

A cum laude graduate of Georgetown University, where she studied languages and linguistics, Laura Resnick's epic fantasy novels include The White Dragon, a Publishers Weekly "Year's Best" pick, and The Destroyer Goddess, which Publishers Weekly describes as "a marvel of storytelling." She won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Science Fiction/Fantasy Writer. And under the pseudonym Laura Leone, she is the award-winning author of more than a dozen romance novels, including Fever Dreams, which Romantic Times named as a "Top Pick," and Fallen From Grace, which was a finalist for the Romance Writers of America's Rita Award.