Marissa Price is a magical realism author writing from sunny Bribie Island, Australia. Her lifelong dream of writing a novel has now come to fruition, through Into the Abyss: Vault of Verona. Marissa is building on the success of her first novel with a second, Scourge of Scotland, available now from all good retailers and online stores.

As a high school teacher English and Legal Studies teacher, Marissa is passionate about literacy. She believes in hard work, consistency and determination, and she writes to provide a wonderful journey for her readers to enjoy. In our turbulent and often disturbing world, there is no better place to escape to than a great book, with characters who can make you feel as though you are experiencing the plot alongside them.

In addition to her fiction publications, Marissa has been featured in The Regionalist, a journal run by the Institute for Regional Security in Canberra. She has written on many subjects, including Australia's refugee responses and the influence of diplomacy in the Asia Pacific region. Her current Honours thesis addresses the radicalisation of young people through a historical approach to studying religious communities within Australia.

Into the Abyss is a 10-part series fracturing classic Shakespearean texts, culminating in an explosive finale that will challenge our views on Shakespeare's own time.

You can read the first of the Into the Abyss series with a click on the button above.