About the Author
Leanna Renee Hieber is an actress, playwright, ghost tour guide and the award-winning, bestselling author of over fifteen Gothic, Gaslamp Fantasy, Supernatural Suspense and Non-Fiction books for adults and teens. A Haunted History of Invisible Women: True Stories of America’s Ghosts, co-authored with Andrea Janes, was a Bram Stoker finalist for Superior Achievement in Non-fiction, and their follow-up, America’s Most Gothic: Haunted History Stranger than Fiction, is a finalist for the 2026 Bram Stoker Award and a USA Today bestseller. Her Strangely Beautiful saga won 3 Prism Awards and she was a Daphne du Maurier finalist for Darker Still. A proud member of Actors Equity and SAG-AFTRA, the Horror Writers Association, SFWA, the International Thriller Writers, and The Dramatists Guild, she lives in New York where she is a licensed NYC tour guide working with Boroughs of the Dead and has been featured on television in Mysteries at the Museum and Beyond the Unknown, discussing Victorian Spiritualism. You can find her online at leannareneehieber.com.
