DANA RAVYN received her PhD in microbiology and MPH in epidemiology from the University of Minnesota, where she was an educator and researcher until 2000. Dana's research garnered two patents and h...view moreDANA RAVYN received her PhD in microbiology and MPH in epidemiology from the University of Minnesota, where she was an educator and researcher until 2000. Dana's research garnered two patents and her medical and educational research has been published widely. Since then, Dana has been a medical writer and physician educator, authoring accredited content used for continuing education by physicians, nurses, and pharmacists. Dana is the author of three other novels, Fearless Heart (KDP, 2014) The Suicide Switch (Wynkyn Worde, 2023), and The Woman From Montevideo (Wynkyn Worde, 2024), as well as an award-winning book of poetry, A Supplication For Crows, (Una súplica para los cuevos). In 2023, she was selected to take part as a poet in the Juniper Summer Writing Institute at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Dana lives in Delaware.view less