OzMari Granlund

Born in a province known for butterfly knives, strong coffee and feisty people; raised in a mixed background of agriculture and industry. Her childhood was a combination of rural and urban.

One grandfather nurtured her with stories of myths, legends, and fantastical beings; another took her trekking. By three, she had developed an incurable reading habit. She collected fairy tales, wrote poetry and short stories, and developed an affinity for herbs, spices and trees.

As a child, she was a woodland spirit with the power to absorb energy from nature. As a teenager, she had to resort to writing tearful poetry to balance her otherwise happy social life.

She became an entrepreneur and a proud sales professional in Travel, Hospitality, Food and Beverage, Real Estate and Technology. She finally stopped dillydallying and answered her calling to become a writer. Her business books are under her real name, but she now responds to Oz Mari G., her pen name for her fictional works.