Liane Young

Liane Young is a retired director of corporate communications for the Office of Naval Research. She is the winner of the 2012 Virginia Screenwriting Competition for Operation Firefly, which tells the amazing, little-known story of the US Army's first all-black test platoon, the "Triple Nickles" 555th Parachute Infantry Battalion. She lives with her husband, Tom, in Virginia, where she is working on her next novel, The Himalayan Teapot.