Veada Denys is a Texas-based writer whose work explores African diasporic spirituality, Afrofuturism, and artificial intelligence. She has written poetry and short fiction since middle school and performed spoken word in Houston for several years; her poetry collection, Sekoya’s Song, is available to read at veadadenys.com. Descended from a lineage of conjure practitioners, she approaches spirituality as cultural inheritance rather than religious authority. After twenty years in information technology, she is completing a Bachelor of Business Administration in Entrepreneurship at Lamar University and relocating to Durban, South Africa, the setting of the trilogy’s final two volumes. The Book of Sura: Circuit & Conjure is her debut novel and the first book of The Thelma Codex.