Marina Fontaine is a Russian by birth, an American by choice, and a writer of optimistic fiction.

She uses her experience of living in a totalitarian society to demonstrate how human yearning for freedom, love and self-fulfillment endures in even the darkest of times and places. 

Marina is the author of Chasing Freedom, a Dragon Awards finalist in Apocalyptic category, and The Product, a dystopian novella. Several of her short stories have been published in themed anthologies. Together with her friend and co-author Daniella Bova, she is currently adding final touches to Spotless, a YA ghost novel set in New York City

Marina can be reached by e-mail at mashak99@yahoo.com