V. B. Eghan

Vanessa Breck Eghan was born the only child of Sean and Siobhanna Eghan in 1973 in New York City. The Eghan family moved to suburban New Jersey while Vanessa was young. Her parents, 2nd generation Irish Americans, were tragically killed in a car accident in 1990 within days of her high school graduation. Vanessa moved to southern Italy where she began to explore the world, keeping a journal that would hold the seeds of her future writing career.