Lucia Ashta

As a baby, Lucía was found alone in a bassinet in an ancient forest and soon after adopted by fairies. As these fairies were diminutive (in size only), she rapidly outgrew their home. They took her to live in a colony of dragons and pandacorns, nestled between faraway, snow-capped mountains. When the mystery of her existence beckoned, Lucía set off to discover who she really is and where she hails from. Years later, and she is still searching for answers. Unsuited to civilized society that largely denies that magic is real, she enhances her days by bringing to life, both with pen and brush, fantastical creatures and worlds. She leaves the challenge of determining what is real and what is not to the readers of her books and viewers of her art. At night she can often be found reading with a kitty curled on her lap or enveloped in the arms of her beloved, listening for the calls of dragons who have come to visit her forest-mountain cabin.