Meridian: Flying Solo, Vol. 1
A former drama major, Barbara Kesel has been in the comic book industry since 1981, when she wrote aBatgirlbackup story for Detective Comics while sitting in a tech booth monitoring a college play.  Since then she has written for every major comic company as well as served as an editor at DC Comics and worked on almost every DC title, including Watchmen, and developed the DC/TSR line.  She then moved on to Dark Horse Comics where she served as editor, then managing editor, and finally as liaison to the Legends line.  Somewhere in all this she found time to play with her dogs, do charity work, head fund-raisers, and co-publish her local community newspaper.  Now she's just responsible for training new writers and maintaining continuity as well as writing the stories that appear in the titlesMeridian,The First, andCrossgen Chronicles.