About Nava

Nava Atlas is the author and illustrator of many books on vegetarian cooking, most recently Vegan Express, Vegan Soups and Hearty Stews for All Seasons, The Vegetarian Family Cookbook, and The Vegetarian 5-Ingredient Gourmet.

She also has written scores of articles on healthful cooking with natural foods, which have appeared in Vegetarian Times, VegNews, Cooking Light, and numerous other publications.

In addition to cookbooks and articles, Nava also produces visual books on family themes, humor, and women's issues. Secret Recipes for the Modern Wife will be released in the spring of 2009, and is a satiric look at contemporary marriage and motherhood through the lens of a faux 1950s cookbook.

Nava is also a fine artist. Her work is shown and collected by museums and universities across the U.S. You can see her work at navaatlas.com [http://navaatlas.com]. Her home is in the Hudson Valley region of New York State, where she lives with her husband and two sons.