Early years

Calvani was born and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico

San Juan, Puerto Rico

San Juan , officially Municipio de la Ciudad Capital San Juan Bautista , is the capital and most populous municipality in Puerto Rico, an unincorporated territory of the United States. As of the 2010 census, it had a population of 395,326 making it the 46th-largest city under the jurisdiction of...

 the Capital of Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico , officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico , is an unincorporated territory of the United States, located in the northeastern Caribbean, east of the Dominican Republic and west of both the United States Virgin Islands and the British Virgin Islands.Puerto Rico comprises an...

, where she received her primary and secondary education. She started writing stories when she was eleven years old. Calvani attended a Catholic

Catholic

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 convent school, where she tended to be shy. The stories she wrote, however, were passed around between classes and made her popular. Her stories always ended in murder

Murder

Murder is the unlawful killing, with malice aforethought, of another human being, and generally this state of mind distinguishes murder from other forms of unlawful homicide...

 or in the supernatural

Supernatural

The supernatural or is that which is not subject to the laws of nature, or more figuratively, that which is said to exist above and beyond nature...

. The authors who have served as Calvani's literary inspiration are Anne Rice

Anne Rice

Anne Rice is a best-selling Southern American author of metaphysical gothic fiction, Christian literature and erotica from New Orleans, Louisiana. Her books have sold nearly 100 million copies, making her one of the most widely read authors in modern history...

, Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American author and journalist. His economic and understated style had a strong influence on 20th-century fiction, while his life of adventure and his public image influenced later generations. Hemingway produced most of his work between the mid-1920s and the...

 and Agatha Christie

Agatha Christie

Dame Agatha Christie DBE was a British crime writer of novels, short stories, and plays. She also wrote romances under the name Mary Westmacott, but she is best remembered for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections , and her successful West End plays.According to...

. She went to college where she earned her Bachelors Degree in Creative Writing.

Written works

Her first novel

Novel

A novel is a book of long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern romance and in the tradition of the novella. The latter supplied the present generic term in the late 18th century....

, Dark Hunger, published by Amber Quill Press and released in 2001, is a dark romantic fantasy. Calvani combines romance and horror in her fiction. Her second novel, The Last Dinosaurs, is a funny satire

Satire

Satire is primarily a literary genre or form, although in practice it can also be found in the graphic and performing arts. In satire, vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, ideally with the intent of shaming individuals, and society itself, into improvement...

 that reaches into the realms of paranormal

Paranormal

Paranormal is a general term that designates experiences that lie outside "the range of normal experience or scientific explanation" or that indicates phenomena understood to be outside of science's current ability to explain or measure...

 and horror as well as mystery and women's issues. Her short stories have been published in Twilight Times Ezine.
In 2008 she wrote a short children story, "Crash!", which was illustrated by Anna Pylypchuk

Anna Pylypchuk

Anna Pylypchuk is an artist and illustrator. She has illustrated the children's book Crash! by Puerto Rican author Mayra Calvani.-Life:...

.

Calvani is a member of AEPRA (Association of E Published Romance Authors). She has lived in Puerto Rico, the United States

United States

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, Turkey

Turkey

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 and now resides in Brussels, Belgium with her husband and 2 children.

See also

• List of famous Puerto Ricans
• Corsican immigration to Puerto Rico
  Corsican immigration to Puerto Rico
  Corsican immigration to Puerto Rico came about as a result of various economic and political changes in the mid-19th century Europe; among those factors were the social-economic changes which came about in Europe as a result of the Second Industrial Revolution, political discontent and widespread...
  
  
• List of Puerto Rican writers
• Puerto Rican literature

External links

• Authors Den