WORLDMAKER(TM) The author is an award-winning poet, novelist, and Ph.D. Scientist. She immigrated to the US as a teenager, due to war in her native country and is a naturalized US citizen. Her scientific work yielded many patented inventions of new composite materials aimed at light-weighting vehicles. Her passion is writing sci-fi/fantasy. She has penned 9 short stories and five novels in the WorldmakerTM of Yand Universe. She lives in Florida, on the ocean, with her son and their four cats, and continues to write.