Julia S. Mandala is a Kansas City native, now living in Plano, TX.  She has a B.A. in History from Kansas State University and a law degree from Tulane University.  Her hobbies include scuba diving, middle-eastern dance, costuming and music.    

     Her chapbooks, Four Redheads of the Apocalypse, co-authored with Linda Donahue, Dusty Rainbolt and Rhonda Eudaly (for which she was the Photoshop artist and one of the cover models), and Dracula’s Lawyer, are available from Yard Dog Press.  She also has stories in YDP’s International House of Bubbas, Houston, We’ve Got Bubbas and Flush Fiction.  Her other short stories have appeared in The Mammoth Book of Comic Fantasy II, MZB’s Fantasy Magazine and Adventures of Sword & Sorcery.