Mary Reynard Liss has lived a life dedicated to the arts. She has travelled the United States as a dancer, living on a show train, a free spirit hitchhiking through Mexico, South America, Canada and the USA, and as an actress, director, singer and vocal coach living in Chicago, Colorado and California. She has travelled through Europe and the Middle East. She has studied, performed, directed and taught opera, acting, Shakespeare, dance, yoga and film. She now lives in California writing her novel, as well as several screenplays and television treatments while performing in films.