Marlyn Fermante Aviñante is the author of some romance novels and love poems published in different online reading platforms. She uses Brooke Windsnap, Ara Aviñante, Azalea Alvez and Marinelli Starr as her author’s names. She hailed from the upland of Cavite, Philippines.

She is a novelist, a poet, a teacher, a mother, a gardener, and a voracious reader of world history and literature. She fervently hopes that she can bring joy, thrills and clear perspectives in life to every reader as much as she finds paradise, freedom and bliss in all vivid emotional images that she weaves through her poetry.