Mercedes Paradiso

Mercedes Paradiso is the author of thunder and daisy, a poetry collection, and Estella and the Dream Traveler, a witchy time-travel love story. Though she has a background as an attorney, Mercedes feels most herself when writing poems and novels that explore the struggles and beauty of the human condition.

She earned her bachelor's degree from USC and her law degree from Seattle University School of Law. Mercedes was born in New York City, grew up in Southern California, and now lives with her family in the San Francisco Bay Area.

If you enjoy exploring deeper existential questions and themes of self-discovery, strength, hope, love, heartbreak, and a touch of magic, you'll find her work compelling.

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