Brianna van der Veen
Brianna van der Veen has been a writer since she was five years old building magical kingdoms in her grandfather's backyard vegetable garden. While fiction is her native language, all of her published work thus far has been nonfiction, in the school paper in high school and in college, then for Eternal Encouragement Magazine and TEACH Magazine as a home school mom in her twenties and thirties. The last few years most of her writing has been an aid and means of expression in healing from violent trauma. Serious stuff. On the bright side, Brianna often bakes sweets in her kitchen in order to come up with just the right words. This evening, for example, her home is filled with the rich, flirtatious smell of chocolate cake about to be served. With frosting and sprinkles, of course.
