Born and raised in New York, Gural received her BA in French and
worked as a translator, interpreter for the Embassy of Madagascar and
the European Communities in Washington, D.C. Research became her
passion when she received her MBA with honors from GWU and changed her
profession to work for the National Geographic Society, Marriott Corporation,
and then turned to more creative tasks working for a marketing agency and
finally ending her research career as VP of Research in the cable industry. Having
written numerous research papers, she confessed to her husband and three
children that her love of writing has turned to fiction. This is her first novel and
she has written four plays.
She spent most of her adult life in Washington, D.C. and then moved to
Park City and then to Santa Barbara. She is