Marva Dasef is a writer living in the Pacific Northwest. Retired from thirty-five years in the software industry, she has now turned her energies to writing fiction, most recently YA fantasy. She finds it a much more satisfying occupation. She lives with her husband and fat cat in the city in which she was born. She has published more than forty stories in a variety of print and on-line publications, and several appeared in 'Best of' anthologies. She has six published books as of January 2011, and four more scheduled for publication in 2011 and 2012 from MuseItUp Publishing.