Leanna Renee Hieber aims to be a gateway drug for nineteenth-century literature. Having graduated with a theater degree and a focus on the Victorian era, she’s adapted works of Victorian literature for the stage, and her one-act plays have been produced around the country.
The Strangely Beautiful Tale of Miss Percy Parker, the first in Leanna’s Strangely Beautiful quartet of Gothic Victorian fantasy novels, hit Barnes & Noble’s bestseller lists and won two 2010 Prism Awards (Best Fantasy and Best First Book). Option rights have been sold for a musical theater production currently in development.
A member of Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, International Thriller Writers, and Romance Writers of America, she’s the RWA NYC 2010 Author of the Year. A member of actors’ unions AEA, SAG, and AFTRA, Leanna occasionally works in film and television. A devotee of ghost stories and Goth clubs, she resides in New York City with her real-life hero and their beloved rescued lab rabbit, Persebunny. Visit her at www.leannareneehieber.com, and follow her @LeannaRenee.