Author/illustrator Lynn Cesar is a native of New York City, having studied fine art and illustration there. Her first mature work was in holography, producing several of the field's first animated holograms (including one of a pterodactyl flying at the viewer through the film plane).She came to the San Francisco to join the Mission district company Multiplex, and there continued her work in holography. After her marriage to writer Michael Shea and the birth of their two children, she turned to the finishing arts, gaining a reputation in Northern California for murals and faux finishing. A passionate reader and sometimes editor, she her first novel, from Juno Books, is a supernatural romance centered around the Mayan panoply titled APRICOT BRANDY.