Dana Gynther

Dana Gynther was born in St Louis but moved to the college town of Auburn, Alabama at the age of ten. She got both her BA and MA (Political Science and French, respectively) at the University of Alabama, spending a year and a half living in France in between. She and her husband moved to his hometown-- Valencia, Spain-- nearly twenty years ago where they work as teachers and translators. They have two teenage daughters and two cats.

Dana wrote "Crossing on the Paris," her debut novel, after translating a museum catalogue about ocean liners.