The daughter of an airline flight engineer, I learned my numbers and letters helping update manuals and reading the instrument panel of an old Constellation. As a child lying in the grass of our central New Jersey farm, I would identify airplanes from their silhouette or tail logo and watch clouds drift across the sky. At one time I studied aviation and considered a career as a pilot, so it is not surprising that I’ve written several works that feature creatures who play tag with the clouds. Among them the dragshi, whose tales appear in the Dragshi Chronicles. In them, a race of humans can shift forms with their dragon soul twins. The dragshi and their dragon twins inhabit a world where two beings occupy one form in any given space and time. In Denea’s universe, dragons and humans don’t coexist in a peaceful harmony. Unlike the dragshi, the character of Trelleir in Hatchling’s Guardian is a true dragon who can use his magic to take on the shape of a human.
