Victoria Hyla Maldonado (also Victoria J. Hyla) is the author of the Hearts Drawn Wyld trilogy (In Death We Part, Running in the Mists, Awake in Elysian Fields), the Young Crush short story “The Bridge,” and the children’s books Bartleby the Brave and Miedosin el Valiente (español). She has been writing all her life and has worked professionally as a writer and editor for 20 years. She lives in the western suburbs of Chicago with her husband and children and is working on a new romance trilogy as well as several short stories and two more children’s books.