Author, actress and playwright Leanna Renee Hieber grew up in rural Ohio inventing ghost stories. Her debut novel, The Strangely Beautiful Tale of Miss Percy Parker landed on Barnes & Noble’s bestseller lists and won two 2010 Prism Awards (Best Fantasy, Best First Book), the 2010 Orange County Book Buyer’s Best Award (Young Adult category). She is the author of Darker Still: A Novel of Magic Most Foul, the novella Dark Nest, and more.
Photograph by Cassandra John Stone
