“For, what is order without common sense, but Bedlam’s front parlor? What is imagination without common sense, but the aspiration to out-dandy Beau Brummell with nothing but a bit of faded muslin and a limp cravat? What is Creation without common sense, but a scandalous thing without form or function, like a matron with half a dozen unattached daughters?And God looked upon the Creation in all its delightful multiplicity, and saw that, all in all, it was quite Amiable.”

Armenian-Russian American writer, artist, and publisher

Vera Nazarian is an Armenian-Russian American writer, artist, and publisher of Norilana Books. She writes fantasy, science fiction, and other forms of wonder fiction, including mythpunk, and is a member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. She is the author of ten novels, among them Dreams of the Compass Rose, a collage novel made up of linked stories, Lords of Rainbow, an epic fantasy set in a world without color, the Cobweb Bride trilogy, and The Atlantis Grail books. Her work moves across imaginative forms and layered structures, often drawing on myth and speculative worlds.