WEINA DAI RANDEL is the author of The Moon in the Palace (a Goodreads Choice Awards nominee, a RITA Awards finalist, and a RT Book Reviewers Choice Award nominee) and the sequel The Empress of Bright Moon. The two historical novels tell the rise of Empress Wu, the only female ruler in China and are soon to be translated into 7 languages.Weina was born and raised in China. English is her second language. She first studied English in middle school in China and came to the U.S. at the age of twenty-four. She holds an M.A. in English from Texas Woman's University in Denton, Texas. It took her ten years to research and write The Moon in the Palace. Find more about Weina on her website: www.weinarandel.comThe Moon in the Palace is her first novel.