D. Lara Smith lives just a short paddle away from the Chesapeake Bay. She has been published in diverse publications including UP.ST.ART Annapolis magazine, What’s Up Annapolis, Annapolis Underground, Taste of the Bay magazine, The Herb Quarterly, and more. Disguised as an instructional designer by day, D. Lara Smith transforms into a chill-seeking, mayhem-creating fiction author at night. Fascinated by everything, her soul’s home is in words and in the beauty of the natural world. She has published two nonfiction books and is completing a work of fiction and a memoir.