Miri Castor is the author of Opal Charm: The Path to Dawn. She spent many recesses in middle school writing fantasy stories, with Opal Charm being one of many. She has written for Black Girl Magic Literary Magazine and was featured as a Spotlight New Author in 2016. Now attending a university on the East Coast, she studies biochemistry and will receive her B.S. in 2016. She enjoys playing video games, attending music concerts, and strolling through the City.

When I was a little girl, I wanted to be everything under the sun: a teacher, a pilot, a firefighter, a lawyer, the President, a detective in the Special Victims Unit (thank you Law and Order), and a writer. Always a writer. No matter how everything else on that list might have changed, writer always stuck. Writing helped me find my voice, and sharing that voice with others is both the most terrifying and most exciting thing I have ever done.