Biography
Dana M. Baird was born in Eagan, Minnesota in 1972. She decided that she was going to be an artist when she was three years old, and added writing to her list of ambitions when she was five.
She attended Macalester College in Saint Paul, MN, where she studied Anthropology and Art History. She later completed her B.A. with honors in Studio Art at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. When her first public art show resulted in the sale of three paintings, she began to see hope for her childhood ambitions.
Dana has written a few fictional stories and her first novel, The Spell Keeper, was released in March, 2008. The Sequel, Veil of Whispers, was released in July, 2009. The third novel in the series, Broken Legacy, is due to be released in the summer of 2011.
When she is not painting or writing, Dana sings with The Court Revelers, a madrigal group that performs out at the Minnesota Renaissance Festival. She has been known to occasionally compose silly song lyrics for the group.
Dana currently resides in Saint Paul, Minnesota, with three insane cats and one very patient boyfriend, Eric M. Clark.