Gabriela Romero-Lacruz

About Gabriela Romero-Lacruz

Gabriela graduated from the University of Houston with a BS in chemical engineering and, after a stint in Oil and Gas, launched The Moonborn, an accessories, clothing, and stationery brand that features her own illustrations. Gabriela writes twisty and dark fantasy stories that are set in places which remind her of home, so in her mind, she is never that far away from the mountains and beaches of Venezuela. She also illustrates book covers for certain select clients. She was inspired to write “The Sun and the Void” because she’s always loved secondary fantasy. And in devouring these stories, she noticed how they used British, Japanese, and Roman history, mythology, and folklore as the foundation for their secondary worlds and magic systems. So the idea of seeing a magical world which drew