Ayla AtashAyla Atash is the author of the moving memoir, Ayla on Fire, chronicling her struggles with mental illness, and the sexy urban-fantasy vigilante novel, Devilish and Deadly. Ayla has a B.A. in English from The Ohio State University and a Juris Doctorae from Cornell Law School. She writes under a nom de plume to allow herself to throw off the constraints of her professional self and actualize the more authentic writer within. That professional self practices immigration law and has a passion for defending the under-dog. She lives with her opinionated toddler and stubborn senior pup in a sleepy Northeast-Ohio suburb. Ayla is a second-generation Iranian-American, pansexual, vegan, atheist, feminist and self-identified witch. Her personal identity-as messy and contradictory as it may seem-informs her perspective as an author. Ayla's writing subverts traditional genre delineations by centering the unwell, outsider, queer, and nonconforming viewpoints that predominate her work. Read More Read Less