Book cover:  How to Make a Renaissance Woman by Alexandra Pratt. Essays on aspiring to be a female Leonardo da Vinci. A stylized, complex watercolor image of the Mona Lisa’s head on a body with eight arms in a richly colored, flowy Renaissance gown. The layout evokes the Vetruvian Man’s spread arms and legs. The arms hold items such as a globe, an infant, and a camera rendered in Renaissance style. Four feet below the gown wear an assortment of shoes.

Alexandra Pratt is the author of What Makes a Renaissance Woman? Essays on aspiring to be a female Leonardo da Vinci. She is working on a trilogy of murder mysteries as well as a novel of historical fiction based on French Utopian colonists in 1850s Texas.

She directed, co-produced and co-wrote The Trailblazer, an independent feature film (findable on YouTube), and has written any and all types of corporate prose and multiple unproduced screenplays.

She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico with her family.