Leigh GrantLeigh Grant holds degrees in art history and fine art from Hollins College (now Hollins University) and Pratt Institute, and studied in Paris and London. A former illustrator, she received the Steven Dohanos Award from the Society of Illustrators andappeared on the Today Show with Katie Couric for her book The Twelve Days of Christmas: A History and Celebration, which she both wrote and illustrated. She later created two pop-up books on Rome and Egypt and completed the certificate program at NYU to become an appraiser of fine art.Fascinated by the Italian Renaissance and the Venetian Empire, Grant brings in-depth historical insight to her fiction. Artimon follows Mask of Dreams which, pre-publication, received the Chanticleer Reviews 2017 Chatelaine Grand Prize for Romantic and Women's Fiction and was shortlisted for the Chaucer Award for Historical Fiction Before 1750. As was Mask of Dreams, Artimon was also awarded an honorable mention for mainstream/literary fiction by Writer's Digest Self-Published Book Awards 2025. A sequel is underway. Grant lives in Norwalk, Connecticut. Read More Read Less