M.A. Burk is an Illustrator who loves a good fantasy novel. She started this series back in 2006 due to her frustration that there were very few good mermen stories out there. So she decided to write her own. What was once written for fun has grown and taken on a life of its own that she never expected. She lives with her husband and children as one big happy, nerdy family.

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M. A. Burk’s artwork was discovered and featured on the cover and interior of the Inter-Mountain West Journal of Religious Studies also in 2019.  This same year, a portion of her artwork and the book series were cataloged along with other Latter-Day Saint artists in the L. Tom Perry Special Collections, located in the library at Brigham Young University.  In 2020, her illustrations told the story of an entirely different merman in The Mer-Prince Adventures by J. B. Spector.  As of 2022, she has illustrated two of his with more to come.  His books can also be found on Amazon.com under the titles: The Sunlit Curse and The Amethyst Tower.