Nancy Dunne
Nancy E. Dunne is a multi-genre speculative fiction author and nationally certified American Sign Language/English interpreter. She is fascinated with how language and culture can shape and influence storytelling. She has 8 published novels in the epic fantasy genre, 2 (as of May 2023) in portal fantasy, and one alternative history/gaslamp fantasy novel. She lives in the Upstate of SC with her husband and dogs, and is a member of the Broadleaf Writers Association in Georgia.
Nancy started writing when she was a child, stapling books together to the delight of her former English teacher mother. Though focused on her career as an interpreter, she returned to writing with the publication of several books about her dogs, told from their perspective, starting in 2002 with the Proud Racer series, and then the Clobberpaws series in 2016. But in 2017 she published the first of her fantasy novels, Wanderer: Origin of the Nature Walker, and hasn’t looked back since.
Though with the retirement of her Irish Wolfhound Bryn, Nancy is on hiatus from renaissance festival performance, she is still the founder and director of the Hounds of East Fairhaven troupe that performs at the Carolina, Georgia, and Upstate (SC) renaissance faires and Tartan Day South (West Columbia, SC). But writing is her passion, and she has several projects underway, including a new vampire series that she is co-authoring with long time friend and author Tony Daniel (Return to Sender: From the Files of Pyramid Investigations, 2017). She enjoys connecting with readers and other authors at conventions and shows.