Minissa is a typical handle for the writer Karen Anne Webb, who has written for all of the chief publications of Northern Utah and continues to contribute as dance critic to Ogden's Ogden Standard Examiner and Provo's Provo Herald. She is considered by the Utah dance community to be the finest dance critic working west of the Mississippi and one of the few who can translate into the written word what is happening on the dance stage. Nationally and internationally, her work has appeared in Dance Magazine and Ballet-Dance Monthly.
Perhaps it is no surprise, then, that one of the heroines of her Adventurers of the Carotian Union series, a lengthy quest fantasy, has made her living as a ballerina. She had also been an inventor and is skilled in the magical arts that come so naturally to her people, but she had to do something with all those school days where she could sleep no more than three hours a night... Adventurers is published by Dragon Moon Press, a Canadian press that specializes in (excellent) sci fi and fantasy. The first book, The Chalice of Life, was released just in time to miss Christmas 2006; the rest of the series has been signed, and the second book, Tapestry of Enchantment, is due out this fall. Webb continues to write, mainly about dance, as a free-lancer, and edits for the publisher Virtual Tales, another smaller house that specializes in speculative fiction.
In all her spare time, Webb co-runs a local branch of a business called Mad Science, which provides multiple science enrichment programs to elementary aged children. Literacy and an appreciation for the sciences (as well as geysers, cats, and her family, which includes the characters from her books), world peace, and the Baha'i Faith constitute Webb's passions. Oh, yeah. Minissa is the Carotian Union's goddess of nature.
