Daphne Athas is an award-winning novelist, whose books include Entering Ephesus and Cora. She published the maverick grammar text, Gram-O-Rama: Breaking the Rules, which addresses the gap between classic grammar and cyber sound-byte-language through hearing, word-play, and performance art. She has been a Fulbright Professor of American Literature at the University of Tehran. She has published both fiction and nonfiction including travel writing, poetry, drama, and literary criticism. She lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina