R E N   D I L L E R

Ren Diller has seen the wrong end of a gun not once, but twice, and also nearly drowned in the Indian Ocean.  She prefers the safety of a fictional world nowadays.  She misspent her youth in Sugar Land, Texas, but survived with all her organs intact (so far).  Ren earned a Ph.D. in social psychology from the University of Houston after spending years behind a two-way mirror.  She currently lives abroad but will always be a proud Texan at heart.

Ren's bucket list ranges from the mundane (finally, finally  watch Requiem for a Dream ) to the ambitious (learn 50 ways to cook aubergines), but she thinks it's vital to dream big and follow through on chasing those dreams.

Her debut novel, The Fracture of a Dream, poses this question:

Death: is it when you're six feet under with not a breath left in your body?  Or is it when you're trapped by your own choices with not a breath left in your life?