Michelle Iacona

Michelle Iacona is a 28-year-old author and poet currently living in the dark, misty
nowhere that is the countryside of North Carolina.  A graduate (Magna Cum Laude) in
Creative Writing from Saint Andrews Presbyterian College, she had her first works
published at the age of 21 in 1993 when she won the distinguished Bunn-McLelland
Chapbook Award.  Writing since the age of five, life has become an endless quest to
achieve that one piece which will make of her a household name.
	Although a bit of a cynic, her gothic mindset has enabled her to explore the
fantastic, both in this realm and the next.  Having studied shamanism for ten years, and
experimented with astral projection and channeling for almost the same length of time, her
cynicism is tempered with a dose or phantasm which lends itself not only to her daily life,
but to her writing as well.
	Currently, she has become addicted to the internet, as well as continuing her
interests in comparative mythology, poetry, classical literature, gothic/industrial music,
and most things vampiric.  Favorite authors include T.S. Eliot, Ronald H. Bayes, Oscar
Wilde, Yukio Mishima, Clive Barker, and Anne Rice.
	Ms. Iacona and her husband are owned by two cats--Chaz and Figaro.