Nicole Chardenet

Nicole Chardenet graduated from Kent State University back when Duran Duran was still considered cool. She is the author of "Young Republican, Yuppie Princess", a riches-to-rags story of a stuck-up Republican college student and her misadventures in a medieval alternate universe. Nicole was, not so coincidentally, in the medieval re-creation group The Society for Creative Anachronism, where she learned how to dress like a historically misplaced dork, belly dance, flirt outrageously, terrify battle-hardened Vikings and dance around campfires at midnight surrounded by screaming barbarians wearing loincloths and roadkill and very little else. Her writing credits include a technology column with a colleague for a New England alternative newspaper, various freelance pieces, and several SCAdian "filk songs”, the less said about which the better. She currently lives in her Den O' Iniquity with Belladonna, her evil henchkitty in Toronto, where she now terrifies Canadians rather than Vikings.